At 10:42 PM 8/14/2002 -0400, Wirt Atmar wrote:

>Alan Whitney continues to be chairman of the SIG-RTE group and will again
>hold a SIG meeting at the upcoming HP World. The date may not be correct in
>the material you may have received. The SIG-RTE meeting has been moved to
>
>      8-10AM, Thursday.
>
>I asked Alan if would mind that a bunch of HP3000 users might sit in on the
>meeting and ask questions about how they got HP to be so cooperative. He said
>that he would be pleased to have as many as the room would hold.

Unfortunately, that is at the same time as the HPe3000 Management Panel
with Dave Wilde.

>Neither Alan had heard the term "abandonware" before, but RTE is abandonware,
>just as MPE is soon to be, and it is being handled by HP in the manner that I
>would have expected MPE to done, especially if this entire process had been
>accomplished in an earlier era, when HP was still and Bill and Dave company.
>Nonetheless, the precedent is there with RTE. The question is now, why aren't
>we seeing the same level of consideration and concern?

HP is completely different company.


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Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
313 N. 1st Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
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