Thus it was written in the epistle of Jeff Kell,
> Well, I guess I'm transparent :-)

Probably so, though I hadn't noticed it when I met you :-)

>                                    I saw/met Ted today.

And I saw/met Jeff :-).  Of course it required our traveling all the way
across the country to meet each other . . . oh, well.

Sorry if I offended you, but I've met enough folks and am bad enough with
names that I figured I'd better leave out most everyone.  (That way everyone
can get offended all at once--it's more efficient).

Mark Klein deserves mention again as HP awarded him the "HP3000 Contributor
Award."  Lew Platt gave a fairly general speech, bowing briefly to the 3000
folks before going off to tell how they are going to make HP-UX and NT
robust and reliable.  Perhaps someone else got more out of his speech than I
and can share.  So far as I can tell, the biggest thing he said was that HP is
intending to continue making money.  Good.

Harry Stirling gave a somewhat more interesting speech called "We're Back...
and better than ever!" which he said was really entitled "We're Back . . .
(although we were never really gone) and better than ever!" :-)

The big excitement seems to be "The HP3000 works really well in conjunction
with other machines."  There seems to be a feeling that, "the 3000 is a really
great machine, sure, but what makes it truly viable is that it can interoperate
with NT," which I find just a tad annoying.  But the 3000 folks know how to
chuckle quietly and be glad for what we've got, and the interoperability *is*
cool stuff and very much appreciated.

The SIGImage meeting was good.  Ken Sletten (aka Ken Paul) got it started and
then gave the floor to HP.  He'll be posting when he has a chance regarding
the specifics, I expect, but the action of the SIG dealt with the Query
"FIND FIELD1=FIELD2" proposal, which HP has investigate and is waiting to hear
from the SIEC about, specific TurboImage limits and the issue of signed and
unsigned positives in Zoned and Packed data types.

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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