Hey Ron (and friends),

Thanks for reminding us of your recent volunteering service. Of all 
who wonder what OpenMPE is doing, at least you know what the trenches 
looked like, working under an assumed CDA and having HP attribute 
none of their supplements to your advocacy.

  On 5/19/09, Ron Horner wrote:
>Ok, everyone put down your flame-throwers.  If you recall, I was on 
>the board of OpenMPE as well.  Like others, I applaud their efforts 
>on prolonging the HP3000's life.

As to the point of new hardware to host MPE, when you could learn 
newer hardware for another environment -- there's those pesky 
applications, aren't there? Move them or rewrite them, their business 
rules must remain a resource for a company. A migrated MPE is a big 
step; some might say near impossible. But hardware to act like 
PA-RISC, for the benefit of any 3000 apps living on into the 
20-Teens? I'd say likely.

Ron Seybold
3000 Newswire

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