Chuck,

        There are a larger number of A and N class servers currently
configured as HP9000s in use and in the used market then there are the
same servers configured as HP3000s.  If HP was to allow for the
conversion of these computers from the HP9000 to the HP3000
configuration it would not require an emulator since it would be
creating an native environment for MPE.  So, from the end users
prospective it would be no different then purchasing a used HP3000.  All
the same rules, licenses, etc. would apply.  Granted this is not an open
ended solution since the number of A and N class servers is finite, but
it could be a solution that buys more time for the emulator to be
created.

        The original question(s) before the user community are "If HP
would agree to the conversion of used A and N class HP9000 computer to
HP3000 computers, would this help your case for staying with MPE(?) and
do you believe this would help or hurt the efforts to create a PA-RISC
emulator?"

Thanx,
    Jon Backus



-----Original Message-----
From: OpenMPE Support Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Chuck Ryan
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10:18 AM
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Subject: Re: [OPENMPE] Stock Piles

Unless I am mistaken, HP is not planning on building too many more
PA-Risc systems.

That means that any 9000-3000 conversion kit for future machines would
involve using MPE with an emulator under the proposed new licensing
model. And as part of the proposed license strictly forbids vendors from
bundling the OS with their products, plus HP's stated goal of
controlling the licensing process with the least possible overhead, I do
not see them entering a deal to distribute an emulator.

Of course we do not really know at this point what restrictions the
final license will contain, the entire process has been as transparent
as a brick wall, but I have heard nothing so far that leads me to
believe that HP will change its position.

Come to think of it, it has been quite some time since we have heard
much of anything on the license.

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