Open-source development on MPE/iX - August 2001
HP World Page 4August 22, 2001
history - in the
beginning
•1971 - what would become the
Interex Contributed Software Library
is born
•1972 - the HP 3000 is born
•1977 - first conference software
swap tape is produced
•1982 - last cumulative CSL tape;
switch to "best of" + incremental
•1988 - CSL switches to
incremental-only format
•1990 - CSL split into separate MPE
and MPE/XL distributions