Bob,
  I surely haven't followed HP's ups and downs for as long as others on this
list, but it seems to me that the problem is much more that HP *does* "walk
the walk" but they won't "talk the talk."

>                        If I were to offer a recommendation to a customer on a
> long-term solution to a business problem, the 3000 would be on the list, but
> probably not on the short list.

Then I believe you would be doing your customer a disservice.  The 3000 is
obviously not the right platform for a few purposes--I, for one, would consider
it a waste of time to port Doom to it ;-), but I think one would be unwise to
"weed it out" based only on the lack of talk by corporate HP.  After all, the
HP3000 has been in its last throes for around 25 years now and it's still going
strong.

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
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Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary
language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to
exemplify in its written structures the patterns which it is its purpose to
convey. The pattern of the marks on paper is a particular instance of the
pattern to be conveyed to thought. The algebraic method is our best approach
to the expression of necessity, by reason of its reduction of accident to
the ghostlike character of the real variable.
                         -- Whitehead, Alfred North
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