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HP-UX on Sun Sparc Station

I have been asked to look in to the possibility of running HP-UX on an unused Sun Sparc Station in the office.

Is this possible?
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No, you can not install HP-UX on sparc station. You could install Solaris or some versions of linux for sparc.

I guess two people already beat me too the answer for this.  However, they did miss the possibility of stealing the HP-UX source code from HP and recompiling for a Sparc.  Though that really doesn't make much sense as the kernel is the only original IP and it is specifically designed for PA-RISC, so it would be a self-defeating enterprise.  I think that it is too late... the answer is "no".
What is model name of that machine?
For 32bit ones OpenBSD does perfectly, for rest - Solaris...
No HP-UX there.
Never gonna happen.  HP has said they will not port their code.  The hpux kernel is very monolithic and designed only for HP hardware.  
And they are slowly retiring all their HP-UX support... Solaris - if it works, or OpenBSD if machine is too old.