Frank,

        Good observations.  I'm curious if one or both of the emulator companies
can respond to the following question, "If a company currently has an HP-IB
attached device, would you expect them to be able to use that device on
hardware that runs your PA-RISC emulator the same as they can today with the
'true' PA-RISC hardware?"

Thanx,
        Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: OpenMPE Support Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
Frank Gribbin
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 2:28 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [OPENMPE] Which MPE on the Emulator


Just some thoughts:

Some advantages of picking the earliest version are that it is probably the
easiest and best understood.  Also, as it is rolled forward, perhaps some
modules do not have to go away, eg. HP-IB.

We'll need a large group of beta testers too.  So let's pick one that has a
lot of users.

Frank Gribbin


On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 14:09:44 -0500, Jonathan M. Backus
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>        There are people on many different versions of MPE (5.5, 6.0, 6.5,
7.0, &
>7.5).  Each version has pros and cons.  There needs to be some discussion
>about which version should HP make available to the emulator companies
>(Allegro & SRI) initially.  Should the emulator companies start with
>validation under 5.5 and then work forward or should they start with a
later
>version?  We need some thought and discussion around this.  If you are
>interested in the PA-RISC emulator, what version of MPE are you running on
>your e3000 hardware?  Why?  Is it because of the need for HP-IB devices,
>because you have an A or N class and it's what came on the box, or what?
>
>Thanx,
>  Jonathan (Jon) M. Backus, MPE-CSM ~ President
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