Well, you can't run MPE and claim "no HP products", now can you? It is
possible to set up a "license-to-use" contract (which gives you access
to the ESC, by the way). As far as not paying anything for the use of the
OS, I don't know what the legalities are.  FWIW (< $.02 f'sure)

Joe Alexander   Systems Manager 
Biowhittaker, Inc.  Walkersville MD


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You also decide to not have ANY HP products -- whatever comes stock
with
5.5 is what you'll use, figuring that you'll just use all the freeware
that has been ported to the OS within the last few years.  (And you have
this dream of porting the first XFREE86 server code to MPE/iX...)

So, with NO HP support, and NO HP products, you still want to run an
HP-blessed and otherwise legitimate "stock" MPE/iX system, but you don't
know what you would have to pay for.  A Right-to-Use License?  A
Right-to-Copy license?  Nothing?  (Hey, we're still talking
"hypothetical" here.)