Complain to Information Week.  We have to get the word to the press to
have a chance of an impact.  After all, Unix is even older than MPE.

Perhaps one problem is that we're so proud of the 3000's heritage and it's
forward compatibility that we often encourage coverage of it's age instead
of it's innovation.

Richard

Tom Hula wrote:
>
> I really had no idea I was working with such a dinosaur. . .
>
> For some reason, the HP running and continuing to be improved
> over the decades somehow comes out as a liability in the press.
> Only the latest and newest is worthwhile (depending on how long
> it stays up and runs, that is).  This subject has been talked into the
> ground on several occasions, but how can something that rarely
> crashes (Our 927 has never failed even once) and has a stable
> operating system that allows for running older software as well
> as (more or less) leading edge software be a liability?
>         Tom Hula
>
> Allan Chalmers wrote:
>
> > check out the article from this week's issue..
> >
> > http://www.informationweek.com/773/hp.htm
> >
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--
Richard L Gambrell
Database Administrator and
Consultant to Computing Services at UTC

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