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| Reply To: | VANCE,JEFF (HP-Cupertino,ex1) |
| Date: | Sat, 8 Dec 2001 21:21:01 -0800 |
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> > How difficult would it be to port MPE to the Itanium
> > architecture? Is the MPE installed base sufficiently
> > large to warrant such a port if indeed it was feasible?
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> Yes, but it is exactly this that HP/CSY found to be too costly to
> do and led more or less directly the announcement of the end of
> support for MPE in 2006.
That is correct. Too costly, too late, declining installed
base, declining ISV population, declining high end customers
that could most use the performance of the new architecture.
- Jeff Vance, CSY
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