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But even the names stopped after Cheetah.  After that you had D-MIT and a
few others up to Q-MIT the Quality MIT (it just happened to have the most
deltas and patches of any MIT.) Then you had T-MIT and U-MIT with Ua-MIT,
UB-MIT (u be sorry MIT (LAN and TurboIMAGE)), UB-Delta1, UB-Delta2. . . and
finally the V-MIT series, which closed out the classic architecture.

Then we restarted at 1 with MPE/XL.

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
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-----Original Message-----
From:   toback2 [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Tuesday, 23 June, 1998 3:05 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: MPE Versions

Stan Sieler writes:
>Ewart writes:
...
>> RELEASE: A.00.00  MPE/iX HP31900 B.30.45  USER VERSION: A.00.00
>>
>> Just which version of MPE is this and is it still supported?
>
>It's MPE/iX 4.0.
>
>(Yeah "iX" and not "XL", Rich ("Yes, I had passwords put on the
>diagnostics") Sevcik
>decided to change MPE XL to MPE/iX *PRIOR* to putting in the POSIX
support.)
>
>
>BTW, I cc'd Jon Cohen on this, since he's never seemed to believe that the
>naming/identifying of MPE versions is so incredibly bad.

I distinctly remember a promise made at the 1986 Detroit Interex
conference Management Roundabout that MPE/XL version numbering would be
clear and straightforward (both numerically and logically). They did OK
up though 1.1 or so.

How about a CI function that knows how to translate the version numbers
printed in the signon banner into the version number that the system
manager ordered from the RC? Alternately, I suggest that in the future,
since the numbers don't really mean anything, names be used instead. Say,
something like Athena, Bruno, Cheetah...

-- Bruce



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