Harlan Lassiter asks,
>
> Looking for some direction here.  I seem to remember being
> told at a recent
> Solutions Symposium that I could update directly from 6.0 to 7.5 PP1,
> without having to update to 6.5 first.  (All HP-IB equipment has been
> removed).
>
> I checked with the RC and was told that the "best way" is to
> update to 6.5
> first.
>
> Is that absolutely necessary?

According to the documentation (SSMM and Communicator) you can go directly
from 6.0 to 7.5. Make sure you have PP1 for 7.5.

>
> What are the negative implications of going directly from 6.0 to 7.5?
>

But the question is should you? A lot has happened to MPE/iX since 6.0. The
change from 6.0 to 6.5 was pretty major, especially in the file system. If
you have the time to do a staged migration or if you have a lot of "edge"
programming or if you are just paranoid, I'd probably suggest you go to 6.5
PP3 as an intermediate step - then on to 7.5 PP1 in a couple of months.

HTH,

John

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