Stan Sieler writes:
>Ewart writes:
...
>> RELEASE: A.00.00  MPE/iX HP31900 B.30.45  USER VERSION: A.00.00
>>
>> Just which version of MPE is this and is it still supported?
>
>It's MPE/iX 4.0.
>
>(Yeah "iX" and not "XL", Rich ("Yes, I had passwords put on the
>diagnostics") Sevcik
>decided to change MPE XL to MPE/iX *PRIOR* to putting in the POSIX support.)
>
>
>BTW, I cc'd Jon Cohen on this, since he's never seemed to believe that the
>naming/identifying of MPE versions is so incredibly bad.

I distinctly remember a promise made at the 1986 Detroit Interex
conference Management Roundabout that MPE/XL version numbering would be
clear and straightforward (both numerically and logically). They did OK
up though 1.1 or so.

How about a CI function that knows how to translate the version numbers
printed in the signon banner into the version number that the system
manager ordered from the RC? Alternately, I suggest that in the future,
since the numbers don't really mean anything, names be used instead. Say,
something like Athena, Bruno, Cheetah...

-- Bruce



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