>
>What would happen if HP "opened" up MPE/?? and let go their copyrights
much
>like Unix has been over the last 25 or so years?

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But, yes, indeed, why stop at Image?


I remember there used to be, (may be even still) IMAGE on the HP1000.  From
what others used to say about it (circa 1987) that the HP1000 was just an
overgrown PC.  The behavior was different, I had to get used to 6 character
file names.  Then even the meaningful part was shorted to 4 when you add
the Image double digits at the end.

Was this in any way related to HP's Image/UX project it was it too early
for that?