"Eric Bender" wrote > IMHO HP should be leading the way in terms of pointing existing and > potential customers towards the multitude of existing MPE applications > available to support virtually every conceivable field of interest. > > But they don't. > Once upon a time, back in > the days of the HP2000 (early '70's), HP maintained and distributed a > central directory of all known apps which would run on its computers. To my knowledge they still do. And such lists are also available on 3kworld and elsewhere. Such a list that (eventually) filters into a good many of the major internet search engines is: http://dmoz.org/Computers/Systems/HP_3000/Business_Applications/ - Cortlandt