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From: bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: mpm OPERATING SYSTEM
Summary: MPM ... relative of CCPM?
Message-ID: <2659@rti.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 88 05:54:00 GMT
References: <77456@neabbs.UUCP>
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
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In article <77456@neabbs.UUCP>, driesb@neabbs.UUCP (DRIES BESSELS) writes:
> Is there anybody in here who has any knowledge about the MPM operating
> system. We just got a TELEFAX cluster controller and it has some
> systems connected under the MPM OS.
> No docs available of course as the manufacturer has made his on subset
> of the OS.
> Please could anybody provide me with an address or something where I
> can get more info or the full set of manuals or whatever...

The only MPM system I know of was actually spelled MP/M, and was a 
relative of CP/M.  It is a multitasking, and can be configured as a
multiuser, operating system for 8080/Z-80 type machines.  I have never
heard of an implementation on 8086 type machines (such as the IBM-PC).

It is, however, substantially similar to CCP/M (Concurrent CP/M) which
DOES run on 8086 machines, including the IBM-PC.  I am not sure if either
MP/M or CCP/M are still available;  the vendor (Digital Research Inc., of
Monterey, CA) is now pushing Concurrent DOS which is a follow-on to CCP/M
and which is claimed to be a significant improvement on CCP/M.  I can't
vouch for that;  the last version I could get to run on my machine was
V 5.0 and they are now up to 6.0 or 7.0 or so.  But they did something
to the O/S after V 5.0 which breaks on a lot of hardware ... I am not the
only person who has had this experience.

If you can verify that this is in fact the O/S in question you may still
be able to dig up some docs from DRI or from someone else.  It is barely
possible that if this fails, I can find some somewhere (however I don't
have them here - it's a question of whether some people I know who used
to run MP/M would be willing to part with old unneeded documentation).

Good luck - if that's the system it is a rather arcane and not very
pretty operating system.

							Bruce C. Wright