John Dunlop writes:
>It is the end of an era. Forgive me for sounding dramatic but this
>issue has raised emotions which are not "professional". Although many
>saw the writing on the wall, they have battled on with a determination
>to overcome all obstacles. Unfortunately, HP ending production and
>support will probably be the end. I look forward to any news about
>"Open source" MPE or any moves for an independent CSY but I'm not
>holding my breath.

You know, I always thought this would be a transparent event.  Let me
explain.  When Posix and the HFS showed up, I thought there was going to be
a slow convergence of MPE and UX.  I saw the Posix Shell as training wheels
for the future.  I envisioned more and more Posix features going from
emulation mode to native.  At some major release the CI would be emulated in
one of the Unix shells or CI would be implemented as its own Unix shell.
The same would be true for the MPE file system.  I thought that HP would
eventually write the MPE file system under UX.  I thought it was very smart
for the hardware to converge and figured the same coming for the operating
system so that at one upgrade, all of the sudden there was one operating
system and nobody would really notice.  MP-UX?  I know, but can you blame me
for dreaming?

Mark Wonsil

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