Ken beat me to it.

> From: Sletten Kenneth W KPWA [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>
> Gavin replied:
>
> > Nahhh.  Nothing needs to be this complex.  We would
> > simply give you the ability to make procedure calls
> > from the emulator environment into the outside host OS
> > environment (Linux, say), and also give you a library
> > from Linux that could load and call procedures inside
> > the virtual 3000.  This one facility solves all your
> > problems in this area.
>
> Who knows...  This might even make Wirt happy (a hard
> thing to do...):  He and others might be able to more-
> or-less do POSIX stuff in Linux land;  and "pure" MPE
> and IMAGE stuff under MPE.   :-)
>

To quote Gavin from another thread on another list, this proposal is
"insanely cool".