> Gavin make a point that I think some may be missing:
>
> There are (at least) two cost components to the MPE emulator:
> 1. The cost of the emulator (Gavin's "some thousands of dollars")
> 2. The cost of the license from HP for the right to run MPE
> on the emulator.
>
> So, while the combined cost will be much, much less than the cost of
> migration or replacement, it will cost substantially more
> than $500-$1000
> for production use of an emulated 3000.
>

Which makes it substantially less attractive as an option.

Until such time as some organization, OpenMPE or someone else, produces a
significant upgrade to MPE it will still be an obsoleted and unmaintained
OS. Expecting a company to spend significant money for an emulated version
of this OS and then to start pouring further dollars into any type of new
development seems a bit on the unrealistic side to me.

Perhaps if some kind of community open source effort could be organized to
create an emulator to defray some of the cost of development, then perhaps
this could succeed. But if you are talking a price tag in the tens of
thousands, you just lost my interest.


Comments are my own, not my employer's... etc.





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