The current QuickPoll is on this topic (HP9000-to-HP3000
conversions).

Thanx,
    Jon Backus
    (www.OpenMPE.org)



-----Original Message-----
From: OpenMPE Support Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Sletten Kenneth W KPWA
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 11:12 PM
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Subject: Re: [OPENMPE] Stock Piles


Wayne after John after Wayne:

> Sorry!  I had thought that the 'emulator' part would be optional. It's

> not needed for a HP-9000 to Hp-30000 shift and HP-9000s are clearly HP

> hardware.  The only technical issue is SS-CONFIG stuff.
>
> What's the holdup?

Answer to last part:
This is not quite a quote, but at one time or another in
one venue or another in the not too distant past, HP (at
least so far) has essentially said:

"We choose to exercise our intellectual property rights to
MPE in this way";
i.e.:  So far they are not willing to allow what is technically
possible.

Ken Sletten