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@@ -87,11 +87,11 @@ chips, but any machine with this chip in it is quite obsolete and this
 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. HP PA-RISC systems are usually refered to with model
-description "HP 9000". The last CPU in this series is the PA-8900.
-Support for PA-RISC architectured machines officially ends as shown
-in the following table:
+The version of PA-RISC at the time of this document's last update is 2.0,
+which is also the last there will be. HP PA-RISC systems are usually
+refered to with model description "HP 9000". The last CPU in this series
+is the PA-8900.  Support for PA-RISC architectured machines officially
+ends as shown in the following table:
 
    PA-RISC End-of-Life Roadmap
  +--------+----------------+----------------+-----------------+
@@ -114,6 +114,13 @@ in the following table:
  | cores  |                | PA-8900/rp34x0 | 2014            |
  +--------+----------------+----------------+-----------------+
 
+From http://www.hp.com/products1/evolution/9000/eol_announcement.html:
+
+ The last order date for HP9000 PA-RISC systems is planned for
+ December 31, 2008 and ship date of April 1, 2009. Operating system
+ releases for HP-UX will continue shipping past the HP9000 systems
+ last order date.
+
 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
 part of the output of the "model" command.  The second column is the
@@ -234,9 +241,10 @@ is told to have Madison 6. As of the date of this document's last update,
 the following systems contain Itanium or Itanium 2 chips (this is likely
 to be out of date):
 
-  BL60p, BL860c, cx2600, cx2620, rx1600, rx1620, rx2600, rx2600hptc,
-  rx2620, rx2660, rx3600, rx4610, rx4640, rx5670, rx6600, rx7420,
-  rx7620, rx7640, rx8420, rx8620, rx8640, rx9610, sx1000, sx2000
+  BL60p, BL860c, BL870c, cx2600, cx2620, rx1600, rx1620, rx2600,
+  rx2600hptc, rx2620, rx2660, rx3600, rx4610, rx4640, rx5670,
+  rx6600, rx7420, rx7620, rx7640, rx8420, rx8620, rx8640, rx9610,
+  sx1000, sx2000
 
 To see all about your machine, type
 
@@ -559,25 +567,6 @@ If you are compiling Perl on a remotely-mounted NFS filesystem, the test
 io/fs.t may fail on test #18.  This appears to be a bug in HP-UX and no
 fix is currently available.
 
-=head2 perl -P and // and HP-UX
-
-If HP-UX Perl is compiled with flags that will cause problems if the
--P flag of Perl (preprocess Perl code with the C preprocessor before
-perl sees it) is used.  The problem is that C<//>, being a C++-style
-until-end-of-line comment, will disappear along with the remainder
-of the line.  This means that common Perl constructs like
-
-  s/foo//;
-
-will turn into illegal code
-
-  s/foo
-
-The workaround is to use some other quoting separator than C<"/">,
-like for example C<"!">:
-
-  s!foo!!;
-
 =head2 HP-UX Kernel Parameters (maxdsiz) for Compiling Perl
 
 By default, HP-UX comes configured with a maximum data segment size of
@@ -640,6 +629,6 @@ With much assistance regarding shared libraries from Marc Sabatella.
 
 =head1 DATE
 
-Version 0.8.0: 2007-09-09
+Version 0.8.2: 2008-05-16
 
 =cut