Currently there are two potentual companies interested in the creation of a
PA-RISC emulator, Allegro and SRI.  I believe both companies are on the list
and can speak for themselves.  I personally found the HP news on this topic to
be positive progress.  Naturally the details will determine just how
positive.  One requirement HP is placing on the licensing of MPE on an
emulatored PA-RISC environment is that it must be on HP hardware.  A quick
pole of the room on how many people were interested in an emulator showed
roughly 90% - 95% were interested.  Then asked how many would not be
interested if they had to run it on HP hardware less then 5% lowered their
hands.

Thanx,
   Jon Backus