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 -----Original Message----- From: cctalk <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Frank McConnell via cctalk Sent: Wednesday, 8 May 2019 1:25 PM To: r.stricklin <[email protected]>; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <[email protected]> Cc: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts <[email protected]> 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
