I believe Andreas simply edited the text, replacing all occurrences of
"Unix" with "HP-MPE".  There is no version of MPE for 386/486 processors.
When the IA-64 processors makes their way into the HP3000 product line, it
is conceivable that a PC with an Itanium or McKinley processor could run
MPE.  I expect HP will devise some method to prevent that, however.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stoops, Peter [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:44 PM
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Subject: MPE: MPE on a PC ??


In thread "a bit OT: Virus on HP-MPE ?!" by Andreas Schmidt, I read the
following :

...
  [ this does not apply ...:  Another example is in the case of a 386/486
PC system running HP-MPE, since this system is still vulnerable to
infection by MBR infectors such as Stoned and Michelangelo, which are
operating system independent. (Note that an infection on such a HP-MPE PC
system would probably result in disabling the HP-MPE disk partition(s) from
booting.) ]
...

Now this caught my interest. Is this really possible? Run MPE on a PC? If
so, does someone on the list know how to proceed for installation? I would
definitely want to try, and see how it performs, what the possibilities are?
I'm already imagining, Turbo Image on a PC .... Well, it gives me a few
ideas:-)


Kind regards,

Peter Stoops
Cheops technology

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