Ok, everyone put down your flame-throwers. If you recall, I was on the
board of OpenMPE as well. Like others, I applaud their efforts on
prolonging the HP3000's life. But if I'm going to have to learn new
hardware no matter what. What is the point of getting an emulator that is
going to run on top of the host OS? I might as well learn the new hardware
and whatever software I will need. Unless your thinking of a new OS
version. That's not a bad idea.
The issues that this thread talks about are some that I've been fearing for
quite some time now as well. It's like being married and then getting a
divorce. Now you have to figure out the wild west of dating. It's really
scary out there. Not to mention all of the other economic factors out there
as well.
-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Johnson, Tracy
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 5:48 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Life after the HP3000 (Research Requested)
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
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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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