In a message dated 12/9/02 12:49:52 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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> The far more important audience is the one
> that's five years out, and that's the one that is currently unfamiliar with
> MPE, where in the absence of any other information, price is everything in
> selecting an operating system on which to base your business.
>
>

I doubt that anyone will move to MPE from anywhere else as MPE with or
without an emulator appears to be headed to a situation where no one has the
source code or the ability to make a change to the code.   A frozen OS with
zero prospects for change is something to avoid regardless of price.

Wayne