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compatibility. The discontinuance of the product line was announced in late 2001, with support from HP terminating at the end of 2010. A number of 3rd party companies still support both the hardware and software.
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computers. While the HP 3000s were initially mini-mainframes, the final high-end systems supported 12
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MPE/iX Commands Reference Manual - HP 3000 MPE/iX Computer Systems - Edition 11
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It runs on the HP 3000 family of computers, which originally used HP custom
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In 1983, the original version of MPE was written in a language called SPL (
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Advocates of continued MPE and IMAGE source code access beyond 2010
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Among others, MPE/iX supports the following list of common
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Discontinued mainframe/minicomputer operating system
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Index

Developer
Hewlett-Packard
Written in
Assembly language
Latest release
HP 3000
Default
user interface

Command-line interface
License
Proprietary
mainframe computer
real-time
operating system
Hewlett-Packard
HP 3000
CPUs
16-bit
stack architecture
CISC
CPUs
PA-RISC
System Programming Language
Pascal
assembly language
Unix
POSIX
commands
=SHUTDOWN
BASIC
CHDIR

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