The HP Computer Museum website now has a link to the version history file referenced
below.
http://www.hpmuseum.net/exhibit.php?content=3000-MPE%20(Software)
Happy to update it if there is more info or corrections.
David Collins
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Subject: Re: MPE release history (was: Re: VMS versions)
On May 6, 2019, at 23:11, r.stricklin via cctalk wrote:
On May 6, 2019, at 5:02 PM, Frank McConnell via cctech
wrote:
Likewise, there used to be an article about MPE
release history. Links I know for it are:
<http://community.hpe.com/t5/General/MPE-Release-History/td-p/4075425
(20 Aug 2014)
<http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/General/MPE-Release-History/td-p/407542
5> (28 Apr 2016)
Naturally it?s been wiped, and
archive.org *doesn?t* have a copy, even though they have
other pages under that t5/General directory in both cases.
I saved a copy in 2012. There are files attached to some of the posts in that forum
thread which collate the results and, amazingly, are still accessible:
http://community.hpe.com/hpeb/attachments/hpeb/itrc-19/2080/1/294077.h
tml
http://community.hpe.com/hpeb/attachments/hpeb/itrc-19/2081/1/336662.h
tm
Grab them while you still can.
Thanks. Grabbed. Those have most of the information I was missing being able to find
easily online: dates and version IDs for classic-3000 MPE releases. I wish I could still
get the discussion text that led up to them because they don?t entirely fit with my
memory.
The mid-1980s were kinda busy with MPE IV Q-MIT and its delta releases, which culminated
in MPE V/R for the Series II/III and 30/33 (I ran it on a Series III), and MPE V/P which
didn?t last very long, and then MPE V/E which had a future. Sometimes I have trouble
remembering what happened when. I don?t remember more than one MPE V/R release (E.01.00)
and it happened some time after MPE IV Q-Delta-2.
-Frank McConnell