| MPE/iX 7.0 Exp. 1 | MPE/iX 7.0 | MPE/iX 6.5 Exp. 2 | MPE/iX 6.5 | MPE/iX 6.0 | |
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| platform functionality | |||||
| HP e3000 A400, A500, N4000 (uni-processor support) | • | • | |||
| HP e3000 A500, N4000 (multi-processor support) | • | ||||
| HP e3000 9x7 | • | • | • | ||
| HP e3000 9x8, 9x9, 99x | • | • | • | • | • |
| Support for PA-RISC chips in the 997/600–800 servers and 989KS servers, with support for up to 6-way symmetric multi-processing (SMP) | • | • | • | • | • |
| Support for 10- and 12-way 997 servers | • | • | • | • | |
| MPE/iX 7.0 Exp. 1 | MPE/iX 7.0 | MPE/iX 6.5 Exp. 2 | MPE/iX 6.5 | MPE/iX 6.0 | |
| performance | |||||
| 2 Gbytes of supported memory on HP e3000 A400, A500 and N4000 Servers | • | • | |||
| 8 Gbytes of supported memory on HP e3000 A500 and 16 Gbytes of supported memory on N4000 Servers | • | ||||
| Support for memory configurations larger than 3.75 Gbytes (16 Gbytes in 997 Servers, 8 Gbytes in 989KS, 979KS, 939KS/030 and 929KS/030 Servers) | • | • | • | • | |
| Support for up to a maximum of 3300 users | • | • | • | • | |
| Support for fixed length record and KSAM file sizes of up to 128 Gbytes | • | • | • | • | |
| Support for larger disk capacities via support of up to 511 disk spindles | • | • | • | • | |
| Support of up to 20,000 TCP network connections | • | • | • | • | |
| Increase in the number of job queues for dispatching jobs from one to 255, each user controlled | • | • | • | • | |
| 2 to 5 x increased performance of classic Java Virtual Machine | • | ||||
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| Internet and interoperability | |||||
| Open-Source Apache Web Server | • | • | • | • | • |
| JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) | • | • | • | • | |
| 32-bit ODBC bundled | • | • | • | • | • |
| LDAP (Light Weight Directory Access Protocol) support | • | • | • | • | |
| SAMBA, DNS BIND/iX, | • | • | • | • | • |
| MPE/iX Software Developers Kit for Java 2 Platform | • | • | • | • | • |
| Support for TCP/IP, OSI, and SNA | • | • | • | • | |
| Support for 802.3/Ethernet, 802.3u/Ethernet, | • | • | • | • | |
| Support for SNA, as well as HP-IBM SNA IMF, HP-IBM SNA DHCF, | • | • | • | • | |
| Improved Threads performance resulting in better Java performance | • | ||||
| Java HotSpot VM | • | ||||
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| high availability | |||||
| Support for High Availability Cluster/iX | • | • | |||
| High Availability FailOver/iX (HAFO) | • | • | |||
| XP Raid Manager | • | • with XPMLXD9 |
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| XP Business Copy and Continuous Access | • | • | |||
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| storage | |||||
| Support for HP XP256 disk array | • | • | • | • | |
| Support for HP XP48/512 disk arrays | • | • | • | ||
| Support for AutoRAID 12H | • | • | • | • with MPEKXD1 |
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| Support for Nike model 20 | • | • | • | • | • |
| Support for HVD10 | • | • | • | • | • |
| Support for DLT8000 tape devices | • | • | • | • | • |
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| database | |||||
| HP ALLBASE/SQL and HP IMAGE/SQL | • | • | • | • | • |
| TurboIMAGE/iX Support for databases with dataset size greater than 80 GB | • | • | |||
| Increase TurboIMAGE limits | • | • | |||
| Improved and user friendly ALLBASE ANSI AS Clause | • | • | |||
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| networking hardware links | |||||
| PCI 100Base-T LAN Adapter for A- and N-Class Servers | • | • | |||
| PCI 8 Port Advanced Communication Controller (ACC) for A- and N-Class Servers | • | • | |||
| Data Communications and Terminal Controllers (DTCs) | • | • | • | • | • |
| SNA/Token Ring (Series 900) | • | • | • | • | • |
| IBM SNA/SDLC Link | • | • | • | • | • |
| Fiber Data Distributed Interface (FDDI) LAN protocols (supported via an external switch on HP e3000 A- and N-Class Servers) | • | • | • | • | • |
| IBM SNA/SDLC Link and BSC Link (Series 900) | • | • | • | • | • |
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| services | |||||
| Replacement of the Sysdiag Diagnostic System with the Support Tools Manager | • | • | • | ||
| HP Predictive Support | • | • | • | • | |
| Support of DVD devices for reading software distributed on CD-ROMs | • | • | • | • | |
| Year 2000 compliant | • | • | • | • | • |
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| media delivery | |||||
| CD-ROM (option OPA, OPB) | • | • | • | • | |
| DDS (option AAH) | • | • | • | • | • |
| 1/2-inch tape 6250 BPI (option AA2) | • | • | • | ||