On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:37:35 -0500, MMRI CS ListServ
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I'd love to hear from someone who has actually been through a conversion of
>a 3000 to a 9000.  We have plans to convert our 969-220 to Unix someday in
>the future.  (The date keeps getting pushed back.)  We have the application
>running on a 9000 already, but in limited production.  I've been told that
>it is "a piece of cake" to boot the 969 as Unix, but am very curious to hear
>real experiences.
>

No it's no piece of cake. It IS a piece of cake to transform the
hardware, since there's just a little EEPROM (or similar) on the
system main board that tells the CPU whether to start the MPE boot
sequence or the HP-UX boot sequence. It takes HP just a couple of
minutes to change that chip out.

That doesn't put HP-UX on your disk of course. I think the HP service
to transform your machine (or lobotomize it, as the case may be)
includes putting HP-UX on the system boot disk. But then someone gets
to customize everything ... set up networking, install printers. And
then YOU get to make your applications work. It's not a piece of cake,
even for an experienced HP-UX admin. An MPE-er is going to feel like
they are swimming in deep waters indeed.

HP's part is a "piece of cake". Your part is not. (BTW, I haven't done
this, but I have adminned MPE and HP-UX, so I have a pretty good feel
for what it takes to go from one to the other...)
---

Mark Landin                   "For anyone who was never good at
T. D. Williamson, Inc.         anything, technology has been a
UNIX Sys. Admin                real boon" --- my mom