HP 3000 No More (now HP2000 thread)

From: Jay West <west_at_tseinc.com>
Date: Wed Nov 14 04:39:18 2001

1) I'm suprised Bob Supnik had a negative response from HP on the 2000
stuff, since they DID in fact make the source code for HP2000/TSB available
(for a fee, but nontheless), even before they end-of-lifed the O/S.

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
writing a 2100/21MX emulator that supports multiple cpus, any number of
interface card and firmware add-in (software) modules, etc. from scratch.
It's probably 2/3rds complete, somewhat functional, and really didn't take
that long. Unless there is something terribly unique about the 3000
architecture (which I know zilch about), I can't imagine it would be that
hard.

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
LIKES unix, perhaps I'm in the minority in thinking that this isn't a bad
thing.

Jay West
----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 3:29 PM
Subject: RE: HP 3000 No More


> > 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.
>
> fat chance. A group tried to liberate Domain/OS, which they didn't
> even write, to no avail... I think Bob Supnik had the same response
> from them regarding the HP2000/2100 software.
>
> Suits. Can't live with 'em, probably couldn't live without 'em.
>
> -dq
>
Received on Wed Nov 14 2001 - 04:39:18 GMT

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