Hi Friends,

A tip of my hat to Alan for drawing my attention back to his fine writing from 2013. I’ve given the two part article an encore in the Newswire’s blog for this week.

A follow on question: Did HP ever perform the MPE/iX enhancement below to allow UPS units to say more to 3000s? Here’s what we reported in October of 2001. You probably remember what happened at the 3000 division just one month later.

HP 3000s will say more to UPS units

HP's 3000 labs will be enhancing the platform to better communicate with Uninterrupted Power Supply systems in the coming months. HP's Jeff Vance reports that the system will gain the ability to know the remaining time on the UPS, so system managers can know that the UPS will last long enough to shut down my applications and databases and let the system crash. Vance said that HP has scheduled to begin its work on this improvement, voted number 8 on the last System Improvement Ballot, in late fall.

Late fall was not a great time in 2001 to be proposing future enhancements for the 3000 and MPE/iX.

All the best,
Ron

> On Jan 30, 2019, at 5:43 AM, Alan Yeo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> My last big play with UPS and the HP3000.
> 
> <<https://3000newswire.blogs.com/3000_newswire/2013/07/would-you-like-fries-with-that-3000.html>>

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