HP 3000 No More (now HP2000 thread)

From: Stan Sieler <sieler_at_allegro.com>
Date: Sat Nov 17 15:05:17 2001

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_at_allegro.com
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Received on Sat Nov 17 2001 - 15:05:17 GMT