Wayne,

I have seen HP literature that states we will see HP-UX, Linux, and NT
running on the same HP hardware (even concurrently on the same box), with
hints that MPE will be ported to that platform as well.  Four processor box.
I haven't looked that far into the architecture, so I cannot say how tightly
or loosely coupled the processors are, what's common between the instances
of operating systems, etc.

Now, remember VM/370?  It could handle multiple "regions" each running an
IBM 370-ish operating system. There was about a 20% performance cost for
running under VM, I believe.

-dtd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne R. Boyer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 2:27 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: ot: Sobeys bails out of SAP
>
>
> re: "... the HP3000 is hardware.  SAP is software."
>
> The thing is, many many HP-3000 people refer/consider the
> HP-3000 to be a
> package of hardware and software.  It is but for non-3000
> people, I personaly
> try to say "MPE/iX" a lot instead of HP-3000.  That gets "I
> dont know what
> you are talking about" type responses but it avoids the "HP-3000 = old
> technology" mindset.  Then I can explain that the HP-3000
> hardware equals
> HP-9000 hardware and thus I have my audience now thinking
> that HP-3000 might
> just equal new technology hardware.  The next step is to
> equate MPE/iX with
> HP-UX as alternative OS's on the same HW platform.  Now if
> only HP would
> provide us with a software switch so we can run both OS's on
> one physical
> box... how about both OS's at the SAME time using diff disc
> drives???  Am I
> dreaming again?
>
> Wayne Boyer
>