Please note I said NATIVELY. Native mode would be the *existing* MPE/iX code running on an HP9000. Emulation mode would be MPE/iX either running on top of another OS
or a clean room reverse engineering of MPE/iX.

Paul Courry


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Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 20:43:59 EST

In a message dated 2/22/03 1:01:24 PM Pacific Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes:


I'll comment on this one.......

If SSCONFIG is made available in some form or a program that traps calls to that little EPROM chip which stores the hardware and software
ID then I suspect that you could run
MPE/iX and HP-UX on the same box. Something along these lines would allow MPE/iX to run natively on HP-UX.




And thus MPE could become exactly what it really is - an alternative OS for HP PA-RISC processor based hardware.  No more different HW
labels.  I cannot see how allowing this would hurt sales for HP in the future.  About the only thing that it would do, is increase HP-9000 hardware
sales.  Perhaps HP is waiting for the end-of-sales date in order to announce such a move?

Wayne