History of Invent3K
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Thanks to Ron Seybold and
his HP 3000 News Wire, we can look back into the past at the
original Invent 3K opening event! Click
here to read the entire
article as it was published back in June of 2001.
HP invents public development 3000 host
New Invent3K server offers online resource for community’s programmers
HP’s e3000 division (CSY) opened the doors on a virtual lab for the server’s development community last month, as the company put a high-end computer on the Internet for the public to use for free.
The computer, which CSY has dubbed the Invent3K server, is meant to provide an HP 3000 computer resource for developers and customers who want to create software and test programs. CSY engineer Mark Bixby said Invent3K provides a place for programmers to work on ports to MPE/iX, among other uses.
“Anybody can register to obtain a logon account to gain access to this machine via the Internet,” Bixby said in announcing the resource, “in order to port new open-source applications, develop new closed-source applications, or just test-drive HP software.”
The server, located outside the HP corporate firewall for security purposes, is an HP e3000 989/400 with 4Gb of RAM and running MPE/iX 6.5 PowerPatch 2. A full suite of HP 3000 subsys products is installed, along with the Gnu Compiler Collection and other popular open-source applications.
“The intent of the machine is to help spur the invention of new MPE apps,” Bixby said, “and we do not want to limit the types of apps that may be created.” Customers who sign up for an account on the Invent3K system are only forbidden to directly use the machine to conduct business, “for example, setting up an e-commerce Web site using WebWise on the machine and selling stuff, or using sendmail on the machine to do commercial mailings,” Bixby explained.
...Click Here to read the entire article
New Invent3K server offers online resource for community’s programmers
HP’s e3000 division (CSY) opened the doors on a virtual lab for the server’s development community last month, as the company put a high-end computer on the Internet for the public to use for free.
The computer, which CSY has dubbed the Invent3K server, is meant to provide an HP 3000 computer resource for developers and customers who want to create software and test programs. CSY engineer Mark Bixby said Invent3K provides a place for programmers to work on ports to MPE/iX, among other uses.
“Anybody can register to obtain a logon account to gain access to this machine via the Internet,” Bixby said in announcing the resource, “in order to port new open-source applications, develop new closed-source applications, or just test-drive HP software.”
The server, located outside the HP corporate firewall for security purposes, is an HP e3000 989/400 with 4Gb of RAM and running MPE/iX 6.5 PowerPatch 2. A full suite of HP 3000 subsys products is installed, along with the Gnu Compiler Collection and other popular open-source applications.
“The intent of the machine is to help spur the invention of new MPE apps,” Bixby said, “and we do not want to limit the types of apps that may be created.” Customers who sign up for an account on the Invent3K system are only forbidden to directly use the machine to conduct business, “for example, setting up an e-commerce Web site using WebWise on the machine and selling stuff, or using sendmail on the machine to do commercial mailings,” Bixby explained.
...Click Here to read the entire article