On: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:56:05 -0700, Craig Lalley
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> On Friday for the Camus group and Saturday morning
> for the HP3000 group, I had the honor of demo'ing a
> working MPE 7.5 system on Intel hardware. The rumors
> are true, my laptop boots MPE.
>
> Stromasys has created a working PA-RISC emulator.
> The emulator recreates PA-RISC architecture in
> software.   What this means is that I take a raw
> disk image (bit by bit copy) of a working HP3000
> system.   I then transfer that file to my laptop.
> If the disk is 9gb it will be a 9gb image.  If it
> is an 18gb disk, the end result is an 18gb file.
> Currently the system needs to be running MPE 7.5
> or in theory MPE 7.0.
>

Impressive. Most impressive.

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