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From: fmonaldo@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU (Monaldo Francis M. S1R x8648)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: RMB on 9K/700?
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Date: 6 May 91 12:45:40 GMT
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devil@TECHUNIX.TECHNION.AC.IL (Gil Tene) writes:

>Hello HPeople,

>I am interested in knowing whether RMB (I think it's called 
>"Rocky Mountain Basic") runs on the news HP snakes. Does
>anyone out there know? Anyone from HP maybe?

>I need to know this in order to help in selection between
>a 700 and a 385 or 433...

>AdvThanks,

>-- Gil.
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After converstaions with my HP rep, these are my heresay impressions of RMB's
future:

	In the past RMB has been intimately linked with (indeed has been)
the operating system. This makes it difficult to port.  My understanding,
(correct me HP people if I am wrong) is that HP will have two versions of RMB.
One, for a BASIC workstation. The second will be an radically restructed       
version that will be pure X-window application, that can be ported to
a variety of computers. This will be more than RMB/UX. It will not be
tied to the 680x0 processors.

	My rep also told me the HP is working on a port of this seond version
of RMB for the Snakes. I would welcome less heresay comments for HP
people who may have greater insight.

	I just saw an ad for an RMB to C conversion porgram. It would
be nice to write software in the comfortable RMB environment ane perform
a conversion to get the inherent speed of C.  What about it HP?

		Frank Monaldo
		fmonaldo@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu