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At 03:33 PM 12/9/2002 -0600, Chuck Ryan wrote:
>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.
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>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.
Faced with a choice of spending tens of thousands to homestead vs. hundreds
of thousands to migrate or replace, homesteading may not look so
unrealistic to a lot of companies.
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Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
130 S. 1st Street, Suite 220
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
http://www.northtech.com/
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