17 Nov
2001
17 Nov
'01
7:05 a.m.
Re:
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
It's not hard to emulate the PA-RISC instruction set.
However, to run *MPE*, you'd have to:
- worry about the PDC (Processor Dependent Code, aka firmware) ...
can you get a license for it, or are you going to invite the
litigious lawyers (ok, redundant) of HP to visit you?
- worry about an MPE license (which has never been sold/licensed separate
from the CPU), or ...?
That's why a lot of people (including users and vendors) are asking HP to
open source MPE.
However, as long as HP thinks they can move HP 3000 users to HP-UX, you can
bet that the open source movement won't get anywhere.
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
Then you misheard. It's really HP-UX, HP-UX, and then HP-UX :)
Stan Sieler sieler(a)allegro.com
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