On Wed, 8 May 1996, Wirt Atmar wrote:
 
> Gavin writes:
> >
> Doing this with the HP3000/HP9000 would seem a much easier task than that
> that faces Apple, given that HP begins with a 100% guaranteed common hardware
> platform, at least for MPE and UNIX. If HP should port Windows NT to PA-RISC,
> as Denys recommends, then there is no reason why the resulting machine can't
> be a tripartite device.
> <snip>
> If HP has not yet given any consideration to the advantages of such a
> multi-operating system design, it is perhaps time that they at least form an
> investigatory committee to do so.
 
I may be betraying a confidence here, but what the heck.  A certain HP
person witht he initials G. S. suggested such a thing two or three years
ago at the NOWRUG conference here in Seattle, so it may be that it is
already being looked at.
 
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> Wirt Atmar
>
 
 
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