if Winston was Dave, then his reason for leaving CSY might be, that he is afraid of being "killed or fired" by HAL? would make a nice story. Can we survive from 2006 until 2010 when "HAL" comes back to life? I think, we could. Michael On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 21:00:51 -0500, Ron Horner <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >As we learned from 2010, HAL was not defective. HAL was not given all of >the information required to complete the given mission. Simply put, HAL was >lied to and didn't understand what being lied to is. > >Kind of like how HP so quickly decided that the HP3000 could not be sold to >the existing customer base. At the same time, HP made no effort to go >outside the current client base. What was the final straw that broke that >camel's back? What was the signal that said, "STOP"? Maybe if we were told >the entire history behind the decision, we would know to save MPE. > >Little food for thought. > >-----Original Message----- >From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of >Bill Cadier >Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 5:54 PM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: OT: MPE 2001 > >Greg writes > >> 2001 is the year that the new hp announced EOL for the 3000. This list has >> seen posts discussing the underlying mythology of 2001, the movie. How >about >> 2001 as a metaphor for the discontinuance of MPE? They misunderstand HAL, >> and tried to kill it, even though there are those who cannot live without >> it. That would make CSY the ship, right? I guess this would make Winston >> Prather our Dave. Isn't it in 2010 that they bring HAL back to life? >> >> If we can avoid the usual bitterness and vitriole, we could probably have >> quite a bit of fun with this idea... >> >> Greg Stigers >> http://www.cgiusa.com > >But... wasn't HAL defective? Killing off the crew and all that? > >I suppose the monolith would be the enlightenment of open MPE :-) > >Bill > * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *