I don't disagree with Joe's comments, however the writing has been on the
wall for some time. The requirements for the Channel Span card to install
the PB-IB and the announcement that the PB-IB would not be supported
(not-supported but it worked) on the 9x9 boxes should have provided fair
warning several OSs back. The C22xx FL disk drives (which included the
C225x FL disk arrays - which I think is one of the most reliable disk
technologies HP ever released) have been off the price list for a number of
years. HP also provided technology to allow the HP-IB connected printers to
be converted to serial connections and the tape drives to SCSI. For less
than the cost of one years maintenance most of the obsolete technology can
be upgraded to the supported technology.
Times do change and even the old HP3000s needs to be upgraded from
time-to-time. As we 3000 users demand more features, functionality and a
64-bit version or MPE/iX we need to accept the passing of some of the older
technology to make way for the new. How many of us are still running a 386
with a 40MB hard drive?
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Outer Banks Solutions, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Geiser <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: 948 Upgrade to.....?
>Gavin writes,
>
>> I believe that unlike the usual "we won't support it anymore" statements
>> from HP after which you find that, in fact, the features still actually
>> *work*, in this case MPE/iX 6.5 will physically remove the code from the
>> OS that supports the CIO I/O subsystem, which means that MPE/iX 6.0 is
>> the last MPE release that will run on any CIO based system, and is
>> the last release that will support things like the NIO HP-IB adapter
>> (which is really a one-slot CIO bus adapter card with a CIO HP-IB card
>> plugged into it) on later machines.
>
>All of this was originally supposed to be removed from 6.0 (apparently),
but as
>Gavin said, according to sources I've spoken to at HP, CIO code is coming
out
>as of 6.5 and therefore, HP-IB and other devices utilizing this interface
will
>no longer work.
>
>What we need to see happen is to have HP give a definitive "get ready to
>migrate over to..." on a certain release, with a "drop-dead" release as
well.
>Predictibility is always better than second-guessing, and as of now, the
>"predictibility" has been that "it'll be there" -- and do we really want a
load
>of customers yelling and screaming when they finally load 6.5?
>
>Just my 2 pence worth (about $0.016 US :)
>
>Cheers,
>Joe
>
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