> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wirt Atmar
>
> A number of people, including HP itself, have been recently describing
> staying on the HP3000 indefinitely as being very risky. I disagree ...
> I've spent the day writing a general reply as a web page at:
>     http://aics-research.com/planb.html

Just playing devil's advocate here :) but I noticed you sprinkled the phrase
"for the next 25 years" liberally throughout the page.  While I realize "25
years" is one of those "nice, round numbers", it isn't as "round" as say 30
or 50...

(in other words, I too can add 25 to 2002 and come up with 2027, MPE's "y2k"
event... ;) )

Tom Emerson

(and yes, I know, MPE has a whole slew of new intrinsics to extend the
internal date format for well beyond the rest of our natural [or even
unnatural] lives, but what guarantee will we have that the final release of
MPE will have ALL internal date-related functions converted to the new
intrinsics/data storage formats?)

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