You may be able to get an account on Invent3k, HP's public development hp 3000,
and avoid buying a machine until your sure of what your needs are.

Richard

Manny Bhuta wrote:
>
> I have not worked on MPE for over a decade.  So, I am quite unfamiliar with the
> current capabilities of MPE.  I am considering buying an A500 system to develop
> a software in the form of mostly several routines.  I want to use only flat and
> KSAM files, no Image or other databases.  I would like user to use a browser
> like MS Internet Explorer as an interface to my system and I have no idea how to
> do this.  Can anyone answer the following questions?
>
> 1.  How difficult it would be to write a server application on HP3000 that will
> receive commands from the browser and send data back to the browser?  Is a
> software package available to facilitate this task?
>
> 2.  Do I need any other hardware and/or software?
>
> 3.  I can get an A500 HPUX unit at a very good price.  Does HP sell a kit to
> convert this to MPE?  If it does, any idea on its cost?  I believe that the MPE
> filesystem is much better suited to my application.  Hence, I am inclined to
> write it for MPE platform rather than Unix.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> --
> Manny Bhuta
> Randolph, NJ USA
>
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