"rosenblatt, joseph" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Not only is it hard it's illegal. People have gone to prison for illegally
>installing MPE on an HP-UX machine. I don't know but I doubt that "being a
>hobbyist" is going to sway HP's mind on this subject.

The economic problem for HP is clear:

- Running MPE/iX on HP-UX machines means "buy low, run high" for the
   customer, but "less revenue" for HP.  Good for the customer, but not
   good for HP.

- Running HP-UX on MPE/iX machines means "buy high, run low" for the
   customer, but "more revenue" for HP.  Bad for the customer, but
   excellent for HP.  Not surprisingly, HP encourages you (via free
   "conversion" kits, which are perfectly legal and promoted publicly
   by HP at every opportunity) to run HP-UX on MPE/iX machines.  As an
   added bonus, MPE/iX machines (after being converted to HP-UX machines
   by HP) will run at their fully rated clock speeds (otherwise, HP-UX
   would look "bad" if somebody were to -- horror of horrors -- compare
   MPE/iX's performance to HP-UX's performance on the same hardware :-)


The long-term economic solution for HP is clear.  But I digress, because
HP prefers to think in short-term terms :-)

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