HP 3000 No More

From: Dan Linder <dlinder_at_uiuc.edu>
Date: Wed Nov 14 14:24:22 2001

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> >Just announced on /., the venerable HP3000 line will join HP calculators
> >in HP's new "we don't want to do cool stuff anymore" business model.
>
> Um, what are they going to run MPE (or whatever it's called) on? What's
> the migration path? UNIX?

According to the press release, they want you to migrate to 9000's or
their PC servers products.

As for MPE on other platforms.. tempting. They should open source the
whole damn thing. That would be an *interesting* read.

   - Dan
Received on Wed Nov 14 2001 - 14:24:22 GMT