Or at least include them in the software bundle for the 908.

Neil


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Bartram [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 1997 5:52 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re[2]: HP Support to End for Classic HP 3000 MPE/V
> Systems
>
>  In <[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > If HP has abandoned BASIC, it would be an extraordinary gift to the
> MPE
> > user community to make it and SPL legal freeware. It would probably
> have
> > to be on the terms that "you find your own manuals and don't call
> us",
> > but in today's environment where information can be so easily and so
> > cheaply distributed, that should not be much of a problem.
>
> Now *there's* an excellent suggestion. It certainly doesn't hurt
> anything
> at this point to make it freeware, and fits in well with the wealth of
> other
> freeware (samba/bind/java/apache/etc) that are becoming available on
> the
> platform (almost all without "official" support or significant
> official/$
> investments from HP).
>
> I started out in Basic and SPL on the 3000 and still find both useful.
> Most
> of our product code began life in SPL in fact (though it's all
> SPLash!ed
> now). Even on RISC machines, SPL and BASIC both can be very useful.
>
> Wouldn't that be a nice headline announcement for HP to make at
> Chicago???
> Something that HP alone can take credit for. :-)
>
> And it adds just a little fuel to 3000 platform's viability.
>
>   How about it HP???
>
>        -Chris Bartram
>         3k Associates, Inc.