Denys Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Actually not.  MPE is not meant to be a PC operating system, nor could it
>even hold a candle to Windows or MacOS when it comes to doing Personal
>Computing tasks.  I just do not see running a flight simulator or MS Office
>on MPE.
>
>By the same token, I do not see how a PC or Windows NT is able to do MPE
>tasks, such as heads-down, hard-core OLTP.
>
>This is the reason why I wanted a portable MPE system, not to replace my
>Windows 95/NT Server notebook, but rather complement it.

Ahhhh.  But if the 908 has dual processors, and if the processors are
Merced, *and* if you can partition the system as can be done with Sun's
UE10000, then you could simultaneously run Windows on one processor and MPE
on the other.

 -- Evan