Not much improvement in performance, as per the article!

"0% performance improvement on the HP e3000 high-end with support for
                         the 10 and 12 way 997 servers"

Patrick Santucci wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Just got the following from "HP Smartfriend" and thought I'd pass it on.
> The last I heard, 6.5 PP1 was coming out "sometime around October," so
> this is welcome news. :-)
>
> > Hi Patrick Santucci,
> >
> > HERE'S THE LATEST FROM HP SMARTFRIEND:
> <snip>
> > --- MPE/IX RELEASE 6.5, POWERPATCH 1 COMING IN SEPTEMBER (Article)
> >
> > For those of you who have been waiting for PowerPatch 1 before updating
> > to MPE/iX release 6.5, the wait is almost over. PowerPatch
> > 1 is expected to be available in September, 2000. PowerPatch
> > 1 is a collection of General Release patches which
> > have been released and tested with MPE/iX 6.5. The MPE/iX 6.5
> > base release contains numerous performance and capacity
> > enhancements that will allow for more growth in high- end enterprise
> > environments and bundled tools for web deployment
> > of the HP e3000.
> > URL: http://cshpmed.cos.agilent.com/smartfriend/cgi-bin/sfem.pl?EML29146=22392
>
> Sorry for any wrap (it should end with "=22392"). Do read the article at
> the link, since it contains, among other things, the end of support date
> for MPE/iX 6.0.
>
> Regards,
> Patrick
> --
> Patrick Santucci
> Technical Services Analyst
> Seabury & Smith, Inc.

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