Hi all,
 
In commenting about the serious problems HP-UX has had from version
to version, I forgot to mention the extremely good care HP has taken
when enhancing MPE.  With a couple of extremely small exceptions,
programs that ran on MPE II (or older?) will run today on the most
modern hardware available (well, except for the 7xx hardware :).
 
We all tend to take this for granted, but readers from outside the MPE
world (e.g., managers above the Harry Sterling level at HP) are probably
not aware of this stellar history.   (BTW, Harry worked on MM/3000...nice
to have a former MPE programmer in charge!)
 
As someone pointed out, there was no compatibility mode for 9000/3xx users
when they went to 9000/8xx.  I hope the HP-UX lab learns *something* from
MPE when they start working on 9000/8xx (and 9000/7xx) compatibility
mode for the HP/Intel architecture!    (assuming one is needed, of course)
 
> (I live in
> Idaho, after all, the home of the most successful HP divisions :-)
 
Ooh...good one!
 
BTW, not everyone in Idaho is successful in handling customers well...
ask Steve about Micron sometime!
 
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