13 Nov
2001
13 Nov
'01
8:39 p.m.
1) I'm suprised Bob Supnik had a negative response from HP on the 2000
stuff, since they DID in fact make the source code for HP2000/TSB available
(for a fee, but nontheless), even before they end-of-lifed the O/S.
2) Someone mentioned to me privately about an emulator for the 3000,
thinking it might be hard. It's probably not that hard for the 3000. I am
writing a 2100/21MX emulator that supports multiple cpus, any number of
interface card and firmware add-in (software) modules, etc. from scratch.
It's probably 2/3rds complete, somewhat functional, and really didn't take
that long. Unless there is something terribly unique about the 3000
architecture (which I know zilch about), I can't imagine it would be that
hard.
3) The story I'm getting from HP on the 3000 migration path, is Unix Unix
Unix. However, since I seem to be one of the few on the list who really
LIKES unix, perhaps I'm in the minority in thinking that this isn't a bad
thing.
Jay West
----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman(a)theestopinalgroup.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 3:29 PM
Subject: RE: HP 3000 No More
According to
the press release, they want you to migrate to 9000's or
their PC servers products.
As for MPE on other platforms.. tempting. They should open source the
whole damn thing. That would be an *interesting* read.
fat chance. A group tried to liberate Domain/OS, which they didn't
even write, to no avail... I think Bob Supnik had the same response
from them regarding the HP2000/2100 software.
Suits. Can't live with 'em, probably couldn't live without 'em.
-dq