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 3000 Servers does not work with MPE/iX Release 6.5, 7.0, 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 3000 Servers will have completed their end-of-support well before November 1, 2001:

HP-IB and the above HP 3000 Servers will continue to be supported through their end-of-support date on MPE/iX Release Release 6.0 (which has an end-of-support date of April 30, 2002).

	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 7.0.

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 3000 Servers, as they complete their support life, should consider the HP e3000 A-Class or N-Class Servers.