Paul writes:
> While HP re-iterated their commitment to MPE/iX and taking it into the
> IA-64 arena, it seemed, to me at least, that they allowed an 'out' path by
> indicating that there would be 3-4 more PA-RISC chips that would be
> concurrently available/released to the IA-64 that will also
> support MPE/iX.

Well, this is pretty much exactly the same thing that the HP-UX people seem
to be saying these days :-)

This particular statement reflects more on IA-64 than MPE.

HP has always stated that they intend to keep making new generations of
PA-RISC chips until they are no longer needed.  I think most of us assumed
that they would never get to the last implementations of PA-RISC on their
roadmap if IA-64 was successful, but now that IA-64 is a couple years late
it's a good thing that HP wasn't betting the farm entirely on IA-64.

The statements today seem to be that HP is still committed to IA-64 and is
sure that it will replace PA-RISC, but it's going to take a few more years
before it happens.

This is all very *good* news for MPE, since it means that MPE has a longer
period of time before the IA-64 version will be absolutely required, which
takes a bit of the pressure off of CSY I would think.

G.