Richard Gambrell writes:

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>It is poor business for HP to cut off the MPE/iX future. Harry said HP
>would consider the business needs of users of the HP3K in making future
>decisions about the move to 64bits, etc. Why not believe him? If the
>HP3K community can gather the strength to keep the business use of the
>HP3K strong and growing, of course HP will port to 64 or 128 bits. The
>PA-8xxx chips are 64 bit chips and they ain't bad, who needs the Merced
>chip for business transaction processing? The Merced isn't even a proven
>winner - it might be the biggest mistake HP and Intel ever made (why
>does HP keep making upgraded PA-8xxx announcements if Merced is do
>good?).

This is a great paragraph! Thanks Richard. A dose of reality is just
what we need these days.

I'm no expert on HP's structure, but I bet CSY has to buy the pa-risc
chips from the division that makes them just like anybody else. Given the
more conservative nature of the MPE business and the newness of the
HP/Intel chips, it makes sense they aren't 'betting the MPE business'
on the new chip. Besides, we probably don't want version 1.0 anyway.


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