John

My only comment is one that I have stated many times over and over.  I would
be really hard pressed to run a mission critical application on a machine
that when it craps out you shut it off and turn it back on again.  Imagine
running a full blown MRP process on a PC for 5 hours then the system locks
up and you have to power down ?????? Good luck.  Remember Billy Gates when
he demonstrated his new Windows version on national TV and it locked up....
Hence my vote is to write an emulator on a much more stable platform.  Even
though I have real sour feelings about what HP has done to the 3000, an
HP-UX box is a whole lot more reliable than a PC. But then again HP-UX is
not the most friendliest of systems...case in point "wq!" (double-u-Q-BANG)
:)   :)    :{

Hey here's a novel idea....put the emulator on an IBM OS390 or maybe a SUN
box.  Now your talking stability  PS Sun blows HP-UX away

Zelik

-----Original Message-----
From: John Korb [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 2:16 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Which MPE on the Emulator


Each day that there is not an MPE/iX emulator running on Intel hardware
reduces the likely hood of our running MPE/iX on such an emulator and
increases the likely hood of us migrating to Linux.

Implied in the above is that the emulator shouldn't require HP 9000
hardware or the HP-UX operating system.  I can't see an emulator running on
other than Intel hardware being a success.  The comment "The same points HP
used to justify killing MPE apply to HP-UX, so now is the time to start
moving off of the proprietary HP-UX OS and onto Linux".  Effectively, in
killing MPE HP has severely wounded HP-UX and added considerable doubt
about its future.

That said, the applications we currently have running make use of MPE/iX
7.0 features.  Running on a prior version of MPE/iX isn't an option.  From
my perspective, building an emulator for anything other than 7.5 (or, at a
stretch, 7.0) is no better than no emulator at all.

John