Some updates to current status

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@24008

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/README.hpux b/README.hpux
index cbf7a7bc08..417bf53203 100644
--- a/README.hpux
+++ b/README.hpux
@@ -14,14 +14,14 @@ compiled and/or runs.
 
 =head2 Using perl as shipped with HP-UX
 
-As of application release September 2001, HP-UX 11.00 is shipped with
-perl-5.6.1 in /opt/perl. The first occurrence is on CD 5012-7954 and
-can be installed using
+Application release September 2001, HP-UX 11.00 is the first to ship
+with Perl. By the time it was perl-5.6.1 in /opt/perl. The first
+occurrence is on CD 5012-7954 and can be installed using
 
   swinstall -s /cdrom perl
 
 assuming you have mounted that CD on /cdrom. In this version the
-following modules are installed:
+following modules were installed:
 
   ActivePerl::DocTools-0.04   HTML::Parser-3.19   XML::DOM-1.25
   Archive::Tar-0.072          HTML::Tagset-3.03   XML::Parser-2.27
@@ -32,12 +32,15 @@ following modules are installed:
   Font::AFM-1.18              Storable-1.011      libxml-perl-0.07
   HTML-Tree-3.11              URI-1.11            perl-ldap-0.23
 
-The build is a portable hppa-1.1 multithread build that supports large
+The build was a portable hppa-1.1 multithread build that supports large
 files compiled with gcc-2.9-hppa-991112
 
 If you perform a new installation, then Perl will be installed
 automatically.
 
+More recent (preinstalled) HP-UX systems have more recent versions of
+Perl and the updated modules.
+
 =head2 Using perl from HP's porting centre
 
 HP porting centre tries very hard to keep up with customer demand and
@@ -47,7 +50,8 @@ Perl binaries available is obvious.
 The HP porting centres are limited in what systems they are allowed
 to port to and they usually choose the two most recent OS versions
 available. This means that at the moment of writing, there are only
-HPUX-11.00 and 11-20/22 (IA64) ports available on the porting centres.
+HP-UX 11.11 (pa-risc 2.0) and HP-UX 11.23 (Itanium 2) ports available
+on the porting centres.
 
 HP has asked the porting centre to move Open Source binaries
 from /opt to /usr/local, so binaries produced since the start
@@ -80,7 +84,8 @@ document will not attempt to address issues for compiling Perl on the
 Motorola chipset.
 
 The most recent version of PA-RISC at the time of this document's last
-update is 2.0.
+update is 2.0. HP PA-RISC systems are usually refered to with model
+description "HP 9000".
 
 A complete list of models at the time the OS was built is in the file
 /usr/sam/lib/mo/sched.models. The first column corresponds to the last
@@ -183,7 +188,7 @@ The current naming convention is:
 =head2 Itanium Processor Family and HP-UX
 
 HP-UX also runs on the new Itanium processor.  This requires the use
-of a different version of HP-UX (currently 11.23 or 11i v1.6), and with
+of a different version of HP-UX (currently 11.23 or 11i v2), and with
 the exception of a few differences detailed below and in later sections,
 Perl should compile with no problems.
 
@@ -192,6 +197,9 @@ attempt to use a PA-RISC version of Perl on an Itanium system.  This is
 because shared libraries created on an Itanium system cannot be loaded
 while running a PA-RISC executable.
 
+HP Itanium 2 systems are usually refered to with model description
+"HP Integrity".
+
 =head2 Itanium & Itanium 2
 
 HP also ships servers with the 128-bit Itanium processor(s). As of the
@@ -569,6 +577,6 @@ With much assistance regarding shared libraries from Marc Sabatella.
 
 =head1 DATE
 
-Version 0.7.2: 2004-12-06
+Version 0.7.3: 2005-03-08
 
 =cut