On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:50:13 -0400, Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]> writes:

> As I've written before, having the OpenMPE committee agree to sign non-
> disclosure agreements was one of the dumbest mistakes that the 
> committee could have ever made, and in the end, could well be attributed 
> to be the single greatest contributor to the death of MPE, beyond HP's 
> own mishandlings of the product.

<snip tongue-in-cheek, although appropriate, comments>

I, for one, have all but given up hope that OpenMPE will ever do anything that will lead to MPE living beyond HP.  Almost seven years of haggling, pleading, begging, moaning, complaining, and griping (BMC) have done nothing to HP's steadfast refusal to part with anything even remotely related to MPE.

OpenMPE tied their own hands with the NDA and if anyone wishes to see MPE survive to fight another day, we need to get an emulator going so that the O/S is not beholden to some arcane, HP-controlled architecture.  It is my personal opinion that even an emulator will not "save" MPE (in any business sense of the word), but only allow it to live as a hobbyist toy in the hands of a dedicated few.

It was to this end that Peter Eggers and I talked about writing an MPE emulator to run on Linux.

Jim


      

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