"As I can't get any response from HP" You are not going to get a response from HP on this. Their MPE expertise is long gone (to India). MPE is dead to HP, and for a while now. Have you pinged the OpenMPE folks? Google the term and see what you find.? Where are you located? What type of media can you read?? You know there were firmware differences between the 900 Series (MPE) and 800 Series (HP-UX) that prevented MPE from running on the same, but cheaper, hardware? Just because you can boot HP-UX is not an indication you can do the same with MPE. :-( Cheers, ? Lee Courtney ________________________________ From: Piotr Glowacz <vcomp99 at gmail.com> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 4:47 AM Subject: MPE/ix media (repost from comp.sys.hp.mpe) Hi All As I can't get any response from HP, I've decided to give this group a try... With a group of a system programmers, we're working on free, open source 3k emulator, based on QEMU (and it's binary translator), with the goal to get a fully functioning rp7400/N4K environment. As for now, we have it working with HP-UX 11i, but our main goal is to get MPE/iX up and running on it... So, my question is - is someone on this group able to provide us with a MPE/iX installation media images? I know it's a gray land, but as I can't get any response from HP (even after they announced their HP3k simulator programme), I'm willing to risk and try to run our simulator with 'unauthorized' copy of the OS, just to check if it's working... Thank you for your help, Piotr

On 8/22/13 4:47 AM, Piotr Glowacz wrote: There is too much 3rd party licensed code in MPE/ix to ever get it released. We (CHM) tried and failed. Unfortunately, classic MPE got tied up in the negotiations as well and ultimately we were not able to get that released either.