Peter Chong <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


>Hardware is one thing and software is the other(no mess, eternal like our
>soul).
>
>Key factor is cost  of Seagate Soft ware Driver for HP 3000 vs. X86 (NT,
>Win9x).
>
>X86 OS has millions users, even hardware vendor write driver for Software
>Vendor.
>In otherhand HP 3K has to write code and maintain it for Interface between
>Hardware
>vs. MPE OS plus overhead.


While that argument could be used by HP for a long time when it comes to
support charges for MPE it no longer holds water. There is no "Seagate
driver" for MPE, and there are no more disks with MPE specific firmware.
There is just a SCSI disk driver, the same for Seagate or Quantum or DEC or
HP disks. That is what standards are all about, and why HP got out of the
disk drive business, no longer supplying "MPE" disks. Furthermore, a
hardware contract states they will replace a drive if it breaks. It doesn't
say anything about supplying/fixing software.

Doug.

Doug Werth                                     Beechglen Development Inc.
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