Cortlandt writes:
> Gavin's phrase "HPe3000 hardware emulator" is clear and concise.

Actually that phrase suffers from the word "hardware" which causes a lot of
people to think that it is an emulation done in hardware rather than in
software.  Such a thing is possible of course, but at the moment I'm
primarily referring to a software emulation of the HPe3000 hardware.  I like
Mike Paivinen's term "Platform Emulator" which indicates that we're trying
to emulate the platform that the software (MPE) runs on, rather than a new
replacement simulation of the software itself.  But even this is confusing
to some people.

My presentation has this definition:

   What is Emulation?

   "Execution of the MPE/iX OS and MPE applications on a non-HPe3000
    system, without changes to software, through a software-based
    simulation of the HPe3000 platform hardware".

One can argue whether "Emulator" is the correct technical term for this
("Simulator" is probably more correct from a dictionary point of view) but
the world seems to have generally settled on the use of "Emulator" for this
type of thing.

> What HP proposed is a license to use MPE/iX with HPe3000 hardware
> emulation software.

In that context it sounds fine though, since the "software" nature is made
explicit.

G.