Tracy Johnson writes:

> On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Lars Appel wrote:
>
>  > Hmmm. Fear from learning MPE/iX? How about giving newbies a hint by
>  > telling them that a user logs on with a HELLO command and logs off
>  > with a BYE command. Just to give them an idea of user-friendliness...
>
>  Once when asked by someone how to log off an HP3000 I mentioned just that.
>
>  The the two NT weenies standing nearby laughed it into derision.

Tracy,

I legitimately don't understand the comment. Did the NT weenies laugh because
MPE was too simple? Or was it too complex, and NT is somehow much simpler? Or
was it because they saw that an HP3000 could be operated without a data
processing staff and that jobs like theirs were at risk?

Wirt Atmar