The Call For Registration for the InterWorks '98 conference (HP-UX)
arrived in today's mail.  There are several interesting sessions
(including one on programming with PThreads), but the price is
serious $$.  That's not the surprise, though.

The first surprise--albeit a minor one--is that Isaac Blake
is now with HP.  (I remember him leaving the City of Tempe for
Kraft Foods, but missed the transition to HP.)  He's listed as
chairing the "Supportability Panel" and the "High Availability Panel."

The bigger surprise was the ad inside the back cover of the brochure.
It's for "The new HP-UX portable workstansion. precisionbook from RDI."
The picture is of a fairly thick laptop, with a trackpad, 3 mouse
buttons, and cursor keys in the upper right (ugh!) of the keyboard.

The ad copy talks about a 160 MHz processor, with up to 512 MB of
memory, and a 14.1" active-matrix screen.  (No price is given.)
The web site is < http://www.rdi.com/ >.

Anyway, if this can be done for HP-UX, why not for MPE/iX?
(No mention is made of the size of the hard drive.  If Jeff Kell's
mention of 30,000+ files on a virgin HP-UX system are any indication,
the drive better be a honker.)

Then again, perhaps a notebook 3000 (not OmniBook 3000 ;) is of
interest only to a few developers.

--Glenn Cole
  Software al dente, Inc.
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