On Thu, 16 May 2002 14:17:00 -0700, John Clogg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>As has been noted here many times, there is a lot to be said for an OS that
>doesn't lock you into a single vendor's hardware and for which there exists
>a wide selection of tools and applications.  An open, multi-platform OS is
>really a good idea.  It's just a shame that the industry seized on Unix as
>the answer to that need.  We can all look forward to the day when a really
>good OS will emerge to fill that role.  I suspect it will look familiar to
>those of us who know MPE.

HP blew it big time!

What they should have done with MPE is license it to anybody (like AT&T did
with UNIX).  They would have made more money from the licenses than they
ever did from their lousy marketing efforts which carried it to the grave.

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