Schwartzman, Zelik wrote:

> Here's a novel idea....why dont we just solicit the folks who originally
> wrote, upgraded and patched the OS from HP and hire them to write the same
> code on another platform (with some minor modifications to satisfy copyright
> and non disclosure laws).  Then you have the best of all worlds.  1) We get
> a stable MPE OS, 2)we stick it to HP, and most importantly MPE LIVES!!!
>


for those who have forgotten - this plan is not so very different from
the path followed by HP when they gathered people with expertise on the
Burroughs B5500 and copied MCP from Burroughs to create MPE running on
a different hardware platform.

Martin Gorfinkel