"Richard Gambrell" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
news:9t170m02fpd@enews4.newsguy.com...
> Gavin Scott wrote:
> >
> > Roy suggests:
> > > Let me guess: with all this talk of us having to go out and get jobs
> > > burger-flipping, and with your known aversion to Wintel PCs, you're
> > > going to rewrite MPE/Image to run on a big Mac?
> >
> > Actually Mac OS-X is one of the best targets for an MPE compatibility
system
> > since it has good support for file systems with file-attached
out-of-band
> > meta-data (aka somewhere to put MPE file attributes), so yes, a big Mac
is
> > an entirely viable alternative MPE platform from a technical point of
view.
> >
>
> IIRC, Netware has an extensible file system.  Netware 6 is the hotest
> thing going for file sharing today and equals MPE in reliability.
>
> Anyone for an MPE.NLM?

Well, not so long ago, I was running Netware on MPE.... so I guess it might
as well return the favour!

--
Roy Brown

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