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July 2000, Week 4

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Re: HP3000 - reason for the longitivity
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Mark Landin <[log in to unmask]>
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Mark Landin <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 25 Jul 2000 08:00:14 -0600
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On 25 Jul 2000 00:22:02 GMT, thompson(at)@athenet.net (Paul Thompson)
wrote:

>VMS survives on in the Alpha in the same manner as MPE on
>PA-RISC does it not?  Just because the current incarnation of the machine
>is still named HP3000 does not mean a whole lot, except continuity in
>marketing.
>
>paul
>

Hardware-wise, true. But even MPE 6.5 has code in it that can trace
it's roots back to the earliest MPE releases. That, along with the
ability to run code that you last compiled 15 years ago ... that's
continuity. :)

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