If bugs do surface, quite often you can get patches from the HP Response Center
to take care of them. But eventually (no time soon), you will have to upgrade.
And you will have to upgrade in order to take advantage of new features. And in
some cases, these new features provide solutions to existing limitations that
you will never see a "patch" for. I am ready for 6.5 when it comes out (I am
also on a 927). I replaced my HB-IB system printers with serial printers and now
nothing uses the HB-IB card.

"Odor, Robert E." wrote:

> Thanks for your reply.   I have only been working with the 3000 for several
> years, so please forgive my ignorance about the question of MPE support. You
> suggested that if we don't need the new features of  6.5 and beyond, we can
> keep running 6.0 indefinitely.  My question: Is there a significant
> possiblity that some bug/incompatibility in 6.0 could come to light and
> cause a problem after HP stops supporting 6.0?  If it did, would there be a
> way to get the bug fixed?
>

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