In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]
says...

>
>A few months ago my company went through a similar evolution which took a
>whole year to evolve.  I took HP9K classes.  We even got the application
>converted successfully.  (Then I quit and found another HP3K job).
>
>During the period of my 4-weeks notice, I was told by someone in the HP3K
>community, that I had escaped the Unix "blue event horizon."  Asking this
>person what he meant, he told me that in his experience of friends that
>undergo a conversion from MPE to HP-UX (or any other ..UX), that they enter
>a "black hole" and are never heard from again.
>
>Has anyone else managed to escape?

Kinda. My first job started all MPE, then UX came in. My next job was about a
50-50 mix of UX and MPE. My current job is now all UX but I am the
backup/2nd-string guy on MPE....so it looks like I am being slowly drawn in
also!!! But I will not go gently.. :)
--
Mark Landin
T. D. Williamson, Inc.
UNIX Sys. Admin
"If you take the smooth, you gotta take the rough" -- Rob Halford