I'd much rather see R&D dollars go into making MPE work more closely
with other OpSys's.

With Samba, we almost have the ability to share HP3000 peripherals with
Windows and NT clients.

IMHO these hybrid systems (like the Avion from Data General) that share
resources through hardware kludges are never that successful - too much
of a compromise. You'd end up with a 979/300 and a Pentium 75, while
standalone servers were running Pentium 400's.

Rather concentrate on optimising MPE for SMB connectivity, NT
friendliness, POSIX compliancy, MVS/VM co-existence, AS/400
interoperability. This would greatly ease the task of integrating these
legacy systems with the fabulous HP3000.

Regards

Neil Harvey

> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Nick Demos
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 1997 11:52 PM
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> Subject:      Re: NT and AS/400, an interesting approach
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> From:   Ken Sletten B894 C312 x62525[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent:   Tuesday, March 25, 1997 2:09 PM
> To:     [log in to unmask]
> Subject:        NT and AS/400, an interesting approach
>
> Denys after Alfredo after Ron:
>
> >I agree with you that the HP 3000 is super-stable,
> >unfortunately it does not have a GUI-based office suite
> >that people can use.  So they use a Windows based PC.
>
> and:
>
> >In the current issue of ENT magazine, the cover story talks
> >about IBM adding a PC on a card inside the AS/400 which
> >will run Windows NT and will have access to all the devices
> >on the AS/400.
>
> And Ken Sletten made some interesting comments about this
> approach being possibly suitable for the HP3000.  Well, I second
> the motion.  We already have multi processor ssystems,so it
> seems that while a non-trivial endeavor, it would have a good cost
> benefit ratio and help HP maintain/attain a stable system AND
> tke them into a simplified mode of didtributed and client server
> processing.
>
> What about it, HP??
>
> Nick Demos   [log in to unmask]