At 01:00 PM 10/23/2002 -0400, Jonathan M. Backus wrote:
>Zelik,
>
>         The concept of only using "purchased" software that is actively being
>supported by a vendor is a great idea and I agree completely, with the
>concept.  The problem is in reality software vendors come and go on all
>platforms and sometimes they orphan software.  Sometimes it is not cost
>feasible to change the software and sometimes there is not another product
>as adept as serving the specific niche.
>
>         Again, we're talking about what is the ideal or most common
> situation.  We
>needed to be prepared for the less then ideal situation, even if it is never
>needed or used.

But that still doesn't negate the need for non-HP folks to be able to
change their System ID string to activate additional processors as well as
other needs which I suspect exist but I am not aware of.

I suppose that the politically correct thing to want is software that
allows pretty well anything to be changed with the exception of converting
an hp9000 into an hp3000 which HP seems determined to keep from happening.





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