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From:   Bob Jankalski[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Saturday, March 09, 1996 5:30 PM
To:     Multiple recipients of list HP3000-L
Subject:        Re: MPE on a Notebook (or PC)
 
On Wed, 6 Mar 1996 [log in to unmask] wrote:
 
> Item Subject: MPE on a Notebook (or PC)
> John Korb writes:
> >I seem to remember that four to six years ago there was a small firm =
at
> >some of the INTEREX conferences that had "an MPE emulator" running on =
a PC.
>
> [snip]
 
Too bad I'm so lousy with names. I spoke with a gentleman who was =
working
on just such a project. Back around 1990 or 1991 this fellow was working
with SCS Engineering in Reston, VA. I believe that he was also involved
with the development of FastTran. Maybe someone out there knows who I'm
talking about.
 
Bob Jankalski -- Ideal Computer Services
 
Let me clear the air.  The subject has two parts:
 
1.  A company wrote a 3000 Classic code simulator (it actually took the =
3000 code and converted it to PC code).  I do not know what happened to =
them, but they may have had problems with software licenses.
 
2.  One of the partners  in our group wrote the following:
        a.  An MPE  command interpreter for the PC.
        b.  An Image analog for the PC.
        c.  A VPlus emulator was also done
        d.  Most intrinsics were emulated.
        e.  The whole was integrated.
        f.   The intent was to integrate off-the-shelf PC compilers (Realia =
COBOL, etc)  These compilers         have certain facilities that would =
allow the source to be COBOL/3000, etc.
        g.  Transact (Fastran) was done.
 
This project was abandoned because:
        1.  The FASTRAN PC compiler (the first language implemented) did not =
sell well, in spite of many     saying that they wanted such a facility,
 
        2.  Prospects wanted more and more of MPE emulated.  The task became =
daunting.
 
There you have it,
 
Nick =20