I've alluded to this about 6 months ago.  Methinks
this is an eerie parallel to Atlas Shrugged?

Instead of a valley in Colorado, the best MPE 
Software Engineers have been spirited away to a 
valley in (B)eautiful (S)outh(E)ast (P)ennsylvanni(a)
[BSEPA].  There are a few hold-outs (like Jeff and 
Mark) who blatantly ignore the invitations from
John Galt at their peril.

Like in "Atlas Shrugged" the professionals who hid 
away in the Mountains of Colorado, these MPE Software 
Engineers in BSEPA are holding out for an eventual 
world computing market collapse, perhaps spurred on 
by insane laws (like the DCMA) that will force people
into mundane oblivion (Windows? Disney? Time-Warner?)

(Hey this is making a good story!)  Help me here,

1.  who represents Ragnar Danneskold? 

2.  What faction does OpenMPE represent?

And most importantly:

3.  Who is John Galt?

Tracy Johnson


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Baier
>
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> >Hi John,
> >
> >> >Now, since the hardware is identical for MPE & HP-UX, why
> >> >can't HP use the same EOL parameters for MPE as HP-UX?
> >>
> >> Excellent questions!  Why indeed?  It would seem the issue is
> >> the staff it takes to keep enhancing the OS.
> >
> >Yes.
> >
> >> and HP doesn't want to invest the effort to support newer boxes.
> >
> >Correct. We don't have the staff to get MPE to run on the newer
> >PA-RISC boxes, and the HP-UX team is large enough to do this,
> >and more!
> >
> >
> > Jeff
> 
> 
> Do I read that correctly, that the real problem with the 
> HPe3000 was not the sales# but that CSY is lacking the staff 
> to get MPE to run on newer boxes?
> 
> So the best interest might have been HP's best interest 
> (find, keep and pay highly qualified MPE-developers) and not 
> the customers.  
> 
> Very interesting indeed.
> 
> Michael

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