I seem to remember something called "KPE" ... maybe ...
 
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Subject: MPE on a Notebook (or PC)
Author:  John Korb <[log in to unmask]> at Internet
Date:    3/5/96 7:16 PM
 
 
I seem to remember that four to six years ago there was a small firm at some
of the INTEREX conferences that had "an MPE emulator" running on a PC.  You
loaded their program on the PC (DOS program) and bingo! a ":" prompt!
"HELLO" to logon and away you went.  The program emulated a classic HP 3000.
It had its own set of "MPE intrinsics" and ran the standard (non-PM) HP
utilities (FCOPY, EDITOR, etc.).  To run your application on the PC meant
downloading the program file from your "real" HP 3000 to the "PC" HP 3000,
then running the program "from the ':' prompt".
 
I don't know what happened to the company or the product, but I can only
assume that there were copyright and licensing problems.  Anyone else
remember this?  Anyone know what happened to the developers and their
creation?  Considering the power to today's laptops, they might be able to
provide Denys with a Series 70 equivalent that would fit under an aircraft seat.
 
Hmmm.  Now where did I put that old machine instruction set manual?
 
John
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