Was VM Virtual Memory or Virtual Machine?
Just Curious in Moses Lake
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Darnell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] ot: Sobeys bails out of SAP


> Wayne,
>
> I have seen HP literature that states we will see HP-UX, Linux, and NT
> running on the same HP hardware (even concurrently on the same box), with
> hints that MPE will be ported to that platform as well.  Four processor
box.
> I haven't looked that far into the architecture, so I cannot say how
tightly
> or loosely coupled the processors are, what's common between the instances
> of operating systems, etc.
>
> Now, remember VM/370?  It could handle multiple "regions" each running an
> IBM 370-ish operating system. There was about a 20% performance cost for
> running under VM, I believe.
>
> -dtd
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wayne R. Boyer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 2:27 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: ot: Sobeys bails out of SAP
> >
> >
> > re: "... the HP3000 is hardware.  SAP is software."
> >
> > The thing is, many many HP-3000 people refer/consider the
> > HP-3000 to be a
> > package of hardware and software.  It is but for non-3000
> > people, I personaly
> > try to say "MPE/iX" a lot instead of HP-3000.  That gets "I
> > dont know what
> > you are talking about" type responses but it avoids the "HP-3000 = old
> > technology" mindset.  Then I can explain that the HP-3000
> > hardware equals
> > HP-9000 hardware and thus I have my audience now thinking
> > that HP-3000 might
> > just equal new technology hardware.  The next step is to
> > equate MPE/iX with
> > HP-UX as alternative OS's on the same HW platform.  Now if
> > only HP would
> > provide us with a software switch so we can run both OS's on
> > one physical
> > box... how about both OS's at the SAME time using diff disc
> > drives???  Am I
> > dreaming again?
> >
> > Wayne Boyer
> >