Porting it to the 80x86/Pentium architecture would be a large effort that
might be of questionable feasibility.  Porting to IA-64, on the other hand,
is presumably less difficult and may in fact be under way.  It has been HP's
stated intention to do exactly that for some time now.

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Subject: Re: nasty rumor


Would it be possible to port MPE to Intel platform?



David T Darnell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Well, I HAVE been pondering the possibility of MPE/HP3000 getting "sold
off". but, wherefrom the hardware - if HP continues to
>  make the nearly identical HP9000 hardware (except for what, an EPROM and
some badging, and a faster clock?) then there's a potential hardware
platform for MPE.
> but would HP want to enter into such an agreement?  Isn't PA/RISC being
replaced?
> What more readily available hardware could MPE and it's subsystems be
ported to?

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