MPE release history (was: Re: VMS versions)

[davidkcollins2 at gmail.com]

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