At 8:23 +1100 2/16/04, John Pitman expressed, with surgical precision:

>In terms of emulating mpe on ux, our major search is for what we find is the
>harder stuff - a callable Sort that does sensible things - reads fixed
>length records (NOT stuff terminated by cr/lf), and being able to create
>child processes that inherit the complete parent environment, as our current
>menu system does.
>Not to mention batch jobs........

John's representative list (not an exhaustive one, by any means)
echoes the kinds of issues that we discuss, all the time and
across every imaginable time zone, with our worldwide customers.

The "bottom line" feedback that we consistently get is: "Why
bother spending hundreds of millions emulating MPE/iX when
MPE/iX already exists as a powerful computing ecosystem"?

I don't know what to answer.

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