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.   :-)

Ken Sletten