MPUX - MPE on UNIX
Your trusted environment can travel with you!

Wouldn't it be nice if you could login into your HP-UX account, and do something like the following:

No, this is not a drawing or a telnet session to an HP-3000. It isn't a weird POSIX shell game under MPE either. This is the real stuff: a screenshot of a genuine MPUX session on an HP-9000.

MPUX, a complete MPE-like environment

MPUX, the MPE-on-UNIX product by Ordina Denkart, offers a true MPE-like environment on UNIX. The environment includes a command interpreter, a file system, various subsystems and utilities. Jobs and Sessions, Spooling, Batch streaming etc. can all be managed like you did on the HP-3000 platform.

MPUX is built on top of an intrinsics layer, that emulates an extensive amount of MPE system functions. The different MPUX utilities like the command interpreter, FCOPY and SORT use the same intrinsics as they did on the HP-3000. Because of the quality and range of this emulation layer, MPUX can offer complete compatibility like no other product.

MPUX features

MPUX currently has the following emulation features:

• CI: Large series of commands (incl. UDCs and File Equations)
• JOB/SESSION: same commands and environment
• SPOOLER: same commands and subsystem
• SCHEDULER: same commands and subsystem
• Utilities: include FCOPY, SORT etc.
• Intrinsics: >90% complete (except LOG; NLS on HP-UX only)
• Miscellaneous: support for CONSOLE, MPE file system etc.

MPUX does not aim to be a perfect copy of the MPE environment (MPUX doesn't use any HP code) but offers the common set of functions that are effectively in use at HP-3000 sites.

MPUX availability

MPUX runs on HP UNIX platforms (HP-UX, Linux) and Windows operating systems (including NT, 2000 and XP). MPUX is available as a boxed product as part of ViaNova 3000 STANDARD migration solutions only.

MPUX will be configured or extended for customers with special requests.

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