HP Multi-Programming Executive
MPE (Multi-Programming Executive) is a business-oriented minicomputer operating system made by Hewlett-Packard.
It runs the HP 3000 family of computers, which originally used HP custom 16 bit stack architecture CISC CPUs and were later migrated to PA-RISC where the operating system was called MPE/XL. The original version of MPE was written in a language called SPL (System Programming Language); later the name of the OS was changed to MPE/iX to indicate Unix interoperability with the addition of POSIX 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 have announced plans to support both the hardware and software beyond this date for customers unable or unwilling to migrate to alternative platforms.
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- Allegro Consultants, Inc. Free HP 3000 Software, MPE Software Support
- Beechglen Development Inc. MPE Software Support
- HP MPE/iX homepage
- HP MPE/iX Command reference
- openMPE Advocates of continued MPE and IMAGE source code access beyond 2010
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