Gavin wrote:
> Correct, so the answer to the Which Operating System Version question
> *should* be irrelevant, i.e. if the emulator can run 7.0 but
> not 6.0, then there's something wrong with the emulator.  In reality,
> we would probably target a specific version to do development around,
> and that might be the only working or supported version for some period
> of time.

I see a couple of potential issues here:

1. If CSY removes 3rd party FOS s/w (Mentant Streams, MB Foster ODBC,
MKS shell and Utilities) as a way to handle the 3rd party license issues,
then the version of MPE an emulator customer is using is different from
what a PA-RISC 3000 customer is using.

2. customer currently on 7.x, but emulated MPE is based on 6.5, thus  the
customer doesn't get to use the HPMAXPIN variable, for instance.

3. customer currently on 6.5 and emulated MPE is based on 7.5 PP x, so
the customer does not have an exact replication of their current (6.5)
MPE environment. Of course, if they are willing to run a PA-RISC emulator
this point may be moot.

Just a few thoughts,
 Jeff Vance, "CSY"