You have all shed a little light on this whole situation. Thanks.

But difficult parts still remain. What about add-ons. Ken, you say $100.00
or whatever it ends up being. OK, now I have MPE. Gee, I have 100base
network card...oops added charge. You want compilers with that, $10,000.00
please. Who's going to supply the compilers once HP decides they don't want
to anymore, not that they are now. How about DS3000, NS3000,
Dictionary/3000, HPDESK, System Dictionary, TDP/3000 and a whole slew of
other things I can't remember right now. Seems to me the price tags is going
to go up a lot. And we haven't even gotten to third parties yet.

Have you guys, gang of 6, discussed this with HP yet? Really, I don't mean
to be a troll, but these questions just started popping into my head and I
can't make it stop.

John Zoltak
North American Mfg Co
Cleveland Ohio
216-206-5510

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sletten Kenneth W KPWA" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: PA-RISC Emulator - Distribution


> G. again / still:
>
> > ... the goal would be to provide a cheap version that
> > lets everyone have that laptop 3000 they've always
> > wanted and yet be able to charge real money in the
> > case that the user is going to run real production
> > processing on it.
>
> Yes, please...   :-)   I think above is ideal outcome.
> Let's face it:  The compter science kids that are in
> school right now are not all going to rush out and plunk
> down $100 (or whatever it ends up being) for a one-or-
> two user version of an MPE emulator right away. But I'll
> bet a high percentage of the people on this list and
> 3000-L will...
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