Hello Friends/Ron,

(I'm just out of my May print issue writing, and have a bit of time 
to respond here.)

>So then with practically just about everyone migrated from the 
>HP3000, what is OpenMPE fighting for?  Some version of MPE that sits 
>on a windows/linix box.  What's the point of that?

Hey, practically everyone Has Not migrated from the 3000. Not yet. 
And you either believe OpenMPE had an impact on HP's 3000 end-game 
since 2003, or you don't. Fighting for? Not a fight anymore when HP 
has left the ring. Maybe when Invent3k and its utility programs and 
scripts emerge from OpenMPE there will be something to change some 
minds and open a few eyes. I doubt it, though.

Programmers might want to use a pipe to redirect their OpenMPE angst 
into HP, where this dilemma began. I never understood why volunteers 
could be so reviled. Or how, unless those scoffing have not 
volunteered recently.

Ron Seybold
3000 Newswire

PS. If MPE sits on a Linux box, then HP's 3000 hardware, aging all 
the time, can be taken out of the homesteading formula. (Send e-mail 
to Strobe Data to see how this works for the HP 1000, and Digital 
Vaxen -- and for whom.) Many other things are needed to make MPE on 
Linux a success, like support, marketing, R&D -- the usual list of 
suspects to let any product succeed. Oh, modifiable source wouldn't 
hurt, either. See that pipe to HP, above, to send your requests for 
real source.

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