HP 3000 Manuals

Introduction to MPE XL for MPE V System Administrators

Overview 

MPE XL provides six system load and start utilities.  Referring to Table
2-3 , below, note that they are directly comparable to the six MPE V/E
load and start utilities.  The utilities and their options are described
in Table 2-4 , Table 2-5 , and Table 2-6 .

MPE XL also can access system hardware directly from the hard-wired
System Console.  The interface is the Access Port and attendant commands
(see Table 2-1 ) which act directly on the system hardware.

MPE XL differs from MPE V/E by providing an interactive user interface
through which you can, if you choose, manually control the selection of
system startup options.  This interface is called the Initial System
Loader utility (ISL). The ISL utility is one of several programs called
when a hard or soft system reset is executed.

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