At 09:02 8/25/99 -0400, Joe after Boris after Greg:
<snip>
>What makes the HP3000 "open" - is introduction of POSIX to MPE, which permits
>MPE/iX to run code compiled using POSIX libraries (which resemble or could
even
>be the same as Unix libraries).
>
>Thusly, code written to POSIX (or even Unix) - with few exceptions - can be
>ported over and run under MPE/iX.
</snip>

The same cannot be said about NT, which is frequently touted as an "open"
system.


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