Gavin hypothesizes...

> > If I were the type of person to do the nasty thing, I could
> > upgrade it to 5.5 - but that's illegal[...]
>
> I'm not sure this is entirely clear.
>
> You have a license to run MPE/iX on the box.  The license does not
> indicate any version.

[snip]

> A complete reading of all the license and support agreements
> involved will *probably* turn up something that would prevent you
> from borrowing a friend's update tapes for use on your machine (or
> at least preventing the friend from loaning you the tapes), but
> on the other hand if tomorrow Joe's machine just happened to
> be on 5.5, I'm not sure that the fact that it was running 5.5
> would be a violation of anything.

However, one would think that it would be a violation for me to cut an SLT
on my 918DX (under support, on 5.5), and then load it on my 927 (not under
support, on 5.0).  I would think it was - and have no plans to do it.

OTOH - if HP came out and told me (in written form) that it was OK for me to
do that, then I might consider it -- but again, I don't really think that
this is kosher.

J