Donna Garverick <[log in to unmask]> writes:

<snip whine about us whining too much>

> ron seybold called me a 'john the baptist' once upon a time.  i'll take
the
> title :-)         - d

And then Wirt points out that:

> You know John the Baptist is generally portrayed as being a little wacko,
> don't you? (I mean literally. He wasn't said to be the sanest guy on the
> block).
>
> And that ultimately he had his head served to him on a platter (I mean
this
> mostly literally. He actually had his head served on a platter to Salome,
but
> the idea still holds :-).

Not to mention that John the Baptist was only the precursor to the Real
Thing.  So, not to carry this analogy/metaphor/allegory too far, but is MPE
only the precursor to the Real Thing?  What exactly does HP want from us
(who use MPE)?  To move to HP-UX?  To give up and go home?  To move to the
AS/400?  To shut up and be good little cash cows?

(Somehow I just don't feel like mooing today!)

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