Removal of Support for Servers and HP-IB in MPE/iX

In order to streamline the development and test of future MPE/iX releases, the PBA-IB HP-IB Device Adapter (A1747A) and old CIB I/O based HP e3000 Servers will not work with MPE/iX Release 6.5 and later releases.

The PBA-IB HP-IB Device Adapter was discontinued in May 1999 and has an end of support date of November 1, 2001. The following old CIB I/O (also known as CIO) based HP e3000 Servers will have completed their end-of-support well before November 1, 2001:

HP-IB and the above HP e3000 Servers will continue to be supported through their end-of-support date on MPE/iX Release 5.5 (which has a projected end-of-support date of November 1, 2000) and Release 6.0 (which has a projected end-of-support of November 1, 2001).

	NOTE: If you are running MPE/iX on one of these older systems, or on a system with any of these older cards or peripherals, you must not update that system to Release 6.5 or later.

Customers wishing to replace their HP-IB I/O cards and peripherals should consider SCSI or LAN connected peripherals. Customers wishing to replace the above older HP e3000 Servers as they complete their support life should consider the A-Class or N-Class HP e3000 Servers.