So a related story (or why I'm not sure Mac OS running on HP-UX) is that strange.
I was interning at the Naval Research Lab in the mid 90s while in high school and was part of a team building what the called the "Secure Tactical Access Terminal". That ran both HP CMW (comparmentalized workstation) an MLS (multi level security) version of HPUX. A big problem on ships is that they have a severe lack of space, so having multiple systems running at multiple classification levels (i.e. command and control machines running JMCIS and normal "office" machines running windows), didn't work so well. so we leveraged the work on CMW machines and provided them with a soft windows (remember them) installation in each compartment that were isolated from one another. So what might have previously been 4 machines on a ship, could be consolidated into one.
We had a test deployment on the USS Theodore Roosevelt (not many HS kids back then could claim that they had stuff they wrote running on an aircraft carrier, so that was cool) and the project was well received by command of the carrier, but soon after the Navy made their decision to transition to NT, and there are famous stories about that.
Great story. I recall SoftPC but not SoftWindows. The Wikipedia page has something interesting to say:
> Unlike most emulators, the SoftWindows product used recompiled Windows components to improve performance in most business applications, providing almost native performance (but this meant that, unlike SoftPC, SoftWindows was not upgradable).
hmm, it might have been SoftPC. It's been a while :)
I think we might have used both in different stages of the project (or on different machines, we were prototyping it on a CMW version of SCO (x86 major COTS advantage) and also had it on either SunOS CMW or trusted Solaris, but HP had the big TAC4 contract for workstations so main usage was on it, that I remember for sure.
I was interning at the Naval Research Lab in the mid 90s while in high school and was part of a team building what the called the "Secure Tactical Access Terminal". That ran both HP CMW (comparmentalized workstation) an MLS (multi level security) version of HPUX. A big problem on ships is that they have a severe lack of space, so having multiple systems running at multiple classification levels (i.e. command and control machines running JMCIS and normal "office" machines running windows), didn't work so well. so we leveraged the work on CMW machines and provided them with a soft windows (remember them) installation in each compartment that were isolated from one another. So what might have previously been 4 machines on a ship, could be consolidated into one.
We had a test deployment on the USS Theodore Roosevelt (not many HS kids back then could claim that they had stuff they wrote running on an aircraft carrier, so that was cool) and the project was well received by command of the carrier, but soon after the Navy made their decision to transition to NT, and there are famous stories about that.