I don't undrstand what all the fuss is about.  Yhe HP9000 was always
a multi-tasking, multi user system.  Now that HP is going to one Op sytem
for its UX line they are bring that capability to the 700 series.
 
NMD
 
On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, Winston Kriger wrote:
 
> In case you haven't yet read the latest (January '96) Issue of
> Interact (3/32-inch thick),be prepared for some astonishing revelations
> about HP-UX.  In the first of a multi-part series of articles called
> "Introduction to HP-UX", the reader discovers that among other
> Hi-Tech features, "HP-UX, an operating system, controls your hardware".
> Not only that, but "HP-UX is both multiuser and multitasking".  I'm
> sure you'll be amazed to find that "HP-UX manages what processes will
> get what system resources at what time and for what interval".  How
> have these incredibly advanced features gone unnoticed until now ? I
> don't know if I can stand the suspense of a whole month before yet new
> discoveries are revealed from the UNIX lab.  I haven't felt this
> overcome with joy since Al Gore's speech exhorting the masses to jump
> on-board the NAFTA treaty bandwagon.
>
> By the way, the January issue of HP-UX/USR (3/16-inch thick) contains
> the type of high-quality, informative articles about HP-UX that many of
> us recall from the time when Interact, Journal of the HP-3000 IUG, and
> SuperGroup magazines printed similar informative articles about MPE.
> That meams "Multi Programming Executive" by the way (for those UNIX folks
> who tune in to '3000L).  Oh well, with the new size of "Interact", there
> will be more space to save the HP-UX/USR issues...........
>
> Winston
>
> P.S. Now I'm beginning to understand why David Brown disappeared!
>