Gavin make a point that I think some may be missing:

There are (at least) two cost components to the MPE emulator:
1. The cost of the emulator (Gavin's "some thousands of dollars")
2. The cost of the license from HP for the right to run MPE on the emulator.

So, while the combined cost will be much, much less than the cost of
migration or replacement, it will cost substantially more than $500-$1000
for production use of an emulated 3000.

At 12:53 PM 12/9/2002 -0800, Gavin Scott wrote:
>Zelik writes:
> > So once again I've been sitting back in my easy chair reading this thread
> > and well, here comes the New Yorker in me.... Here you are all concerned
> > about the cost of licensing $500, $1000 and possibly more than that.
>
>For the $500-$1000 we're talking about a system that you could only use for
>development (a personal MPE development system essentially) and not a system
>that you could replace a "real" 3000 with or run your business on.  All of
>the emulator companies would, I assume, expect you to pay "some thousands of
>dollars" for an emulator that could be used to replace a production system
>and thus be used for homesteading, etc.
>
>The exact definition of "some" is not well defined at this time, and I doubt
>that any of the potential emulator product developers are going to speculate
>publicly on this yet, both because of competitive issues and that both the
>costs of development and size of the market may yet be largely uncertain.
>
>G.

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