Larry wrote...
>In my opinion the thing that kills 3000s is not time but os upgrade
>complexity.  The manual for version 6.5 upgrade is about 1" thick.  Can I
>give this to a plant manager who currently just changes the tapes for each
>nightly backup and ask him to upgrade the os?  No way.  [...]

While I do agree that the MPE/iX install/update/patch procedures do
leave *lots* of room for improvement (the if's and goto's in the manual
should really be put into a program that either prints or displays a
customized step-by-step checklist or invoke the steps automagically)...

I also have to say that just last week a new colleague did perform
quite a number of tasks with that manual (install, patch, update) and
seemed to have close to zero problems. Notice that he did not yet have
a chance to visit the MPE/iX system manager class!

The thickness of the manual also results from the detail-level, I guess.

Lars.

(again... a simplified or GUI-fied install/update/patch would be nice)