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- From: hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: HP-3000/MPE/HP-UX Box
- Message-ID: <1608@hcshh.hcs.de>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 08:49:22 GMT
- References: <1gg1hlINN23q@lucy.cs.widener.edu> <1992Dec14.154831.2685@cognos.com>
- Organization: HCS GmbH, Hamburg, Europe
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- In <1992Dec14.154831.2685@cognos.com> jimp@cognos.COM (Jim Patterson) writes:
-
- >[..] HP sells two different computer series
- >based upon the same chip technology (HP-PA), these being the HP
- >9000/8xx or 7xx (running HP-UX) and the HP 3000/9xx (running MPE/iX, a
- >32 bit implementation of MPE/V). However these are in fact two
- >separate computer systems. As I understand it you can't run HP-UX on a
- >HP3000/9xx or run MPE/iX on a HP9000/8xx, because of differences in
- >the peripheral equipment (e.g. the terminal controllers).
-
- Hmm - on any 3000/9xx if seen so far, you can run HP-UX (i.e. the support tape
- is HP-UX-based ..) but you can't run MPE on every HP9000/8xx - this is just
- because there are some boards in some 8xx'es that are not (fully) supported
- by MPE.
-
- This implies that you don't have to buy new hardware when you decide to
- migrate from MPE to HP-UX.
-
- Any comments on the legal aspects ?
-
- hellmuth
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- hellmuth michaelis HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH hamburg, europe
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