In a message dated 8/29/02 6:47:49 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
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> And that is just the problem.  Our careers have gone from being stable
> affairs
> where many of us sat at the top of our profession to being forced to start
> over
> on new operating systems...

While I've seen the erosion of the MPE world for some time now, HP's EOL
announcement was still a surprise to me.  I've been investing a lot of time
and money for the past few years to migrate myself into different software
worlds but it's hard.  HP-3000 and MPE work has for me, always been much more
financially rewarding than various other choices.  I suspect that this is
true for a lot of MPE people so personal financial pain is part of why there
is a lot of animosity against HP now.

For what it's worth, I start as a full-time night college student taking a
bunch of WEBy Comp. Sci. classes on Sept 3rd.  Kinda funny talking classes in
a major that I already have a degree in!  Any bets on how long it will take
before I hear in class that COBOL is a 'dead language'?

Wayne Boyer
PS: can I do my homework on a HP-3000?

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