I had a response for Mr. Horner prepared but it is still in the decision
whether-to-send-or-not process.  Here's an excerpt:

    "Yes, it also means that OpenMPE also has 'intent' of persuing an
emulator.  
    Does that mean it will sit under Linux? ... Windows?  A
One-MPE-Per-Child 
    project?  Will it sit on it's own?  Not much else is there?  ..."

Tracy Johnson
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ron Seybold
> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 6:25 PM
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> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Life after the HP3000 (Research Requested)
> 
> 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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