At 09:29 AM 1999-07-19 -0400, Doug Werth wrote:

snip...
>As it stands today, when you order a new HP 3000, you have to specify a
>database option for your MPE license. You can order it with either:
>
>- option 810 Image and Allbase
>- option 910 IMAGE/SQL only
>- option 900 MPE/iX only.


AFAIK, it is not possible to order an HP3000 system without at least
TurboIMAGE.

Option 900, MPE/iX only, does indeed include TurboIMAGE - but not IMAGE/SQL.

The actual proof of that is in the pudding of the MPE/iX FOS tape.

All optional HP software is delivered on a SUBSYS or EXPRESS tape.

There is currently only one version of the FOS tape - and it includes
TurboIMAGE - as well as other software such as ThinLan Link, TELNET, FTP,
VPLUS, KSAM, etc.

Thee was a brief period of time when there WAS a distinction between a FOS
that included TurboIMAGE and one that didn't.

It turned out that it caused HP no end to problems, and, presumeably, an
unannounced decision was made to include TurboIMAGE on the one FOS tape
distributed to all HP3000's.

Surely someone from HP will correct me if I'm wrong.

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