On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:37:35 -0500, MMRI CS ListServ <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >I'd love to hear from someone who has actually been through a conversion of >a 3000 to a 9000. We have plans to convert our 969-220 to Unix someday in >the future. (The date keeps getting pushed back.) We have the application >running on a 9000 already, but in limited production. I've been told that >it is "a piece of cake" to boot the 969 as Unix, but am very curious to hear >real experiences. > No it's no piece of cake. It IS a piece of cake to transform the hardware, since there's just a little EEPROM (or similar) on the system main board that tells the CPU whether to start the MPE boot sequence or the HP-UX boot sequence. It takes HP just a couple of minutes to change that chip out. That doesn't put HP-UX on your disk of course. I think the HP service to transform your machine (or lobotomize it, as the case may be) includes putting HP-UX on the system boot disk. But then someone gets to customize everything ... set up networking, install printers. And then YOU get to make your applications work. It's not a piece of cake, even for an experienced HP-UX admin. An MPE-er is going to feel like they are swimming in deep waters indeed. HP's part is a "piece of cake". Your part is not. (BTW, I haven't done this, but I have adminned MPE and HP-UX, so I have a pretty good feel for what it takes to go from one to the other...) --- Mark Landin "For anyone who was never good at T. D. Williamson, Inc. anything, technology has been a UNIX Sys. Admin real boon" --- my mom