Duane Percox wrote: > Did you hear about the IBM plan to hijack the giant poster > on the road to Anaheim? <snip> I see that Denys' ruse has worked well -- Duane fell for it. The real story is this: Denys has been conducting intense discussions with Bill Gates of Microsoft: - Denys' would like to see MPE/iX be more Windows-friendly - Bill Gates wants an easy-to-use, robust, scalable enterprise-capable operating system that will run on Intel hardware. Together they've hatched a plan to acquire the MPE/iX source code, steal the CSY lab personnel and, by the time the Merced chipset ships, announce NTAS '98: a merged NTAS and MPE/iX -- full 64 bit implementation, and yes, it will run on workstation hardware! Stealing the poster is just the first step; in fact, Wirt is in cahoots with them: he'll show up at HP World in rumpled, soiled, bloody, torn clothing after having hitchhiked from some desert location claiming that he was the victim of a hijacking. In reality, the poster doesn't even exist! There it is -- the awful truth... -- Evan