THE HP PART NUMBER IS 50726-10202 AND IS ENTITLED HP LASERROM MPE V RELEASE 2P DATED MAY 1994

Paul


On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 07:12:16 -0800, Paul courry wrote:

>I have in my hand an MPE/V LaserROM. I bet you that they are still available. If not, then email me privately and I'll see what I
>can do.
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>Paul
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>On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:28:24 EST, Wirt Atmar wrote:
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>>Steve Robertson writes:
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>>> I just acquired a HP3000 series 42 running MPE/V. Unfortunately, I don't
>>>  any documentation for the OS.
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>>>  Does anyone have any documents (they would be willing to part with) or a
>>>  know where I might find some.
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>>Obtaining a complete, original documentation set for the Series 42 will be
>>difficult. There is a fair amount of paper involved in the set, broken into
>>about 20 binders.
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>>However, one of the truly glorious things about working on a "legacy" system
>>is the feature set of the machine hasn't changed much over the last 25 years.
>>The basics still apply to the newest system as they do the oldest, thus you
>>can use the web-based manuals for MPE/iX 5.0 as a quite reasonable basis for
>>your 42.
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>>If something doesn't work as advertised in these manuals, just presume that it
>>is a feature that has been added since the changeover to MPE/iX. Moreover,
>>very little has been subtracted from MPE/V (and even when it has, a new MPE/iX
>>function was added to replace the MPE/V version).
>>
>>Precise documentation for the 42 command set will be found on your 42 by
>>simply typing HELP. Between on-line help and the web-based manuals, you should
>>be in hog heaven.
>>
>>Wirt Atmar
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