Each day that there is not an MPE/iX emulator running on Intel hardware
reduces the likely hood of our running MPE/iX on such an emulator and
increases the likely hood of us migrating to Linux.

Implied in the above is that the emulator shouldn't require HP 9000
hardware or the HP-UX operating system.  I can't see an emulator running on
other than Intel hardware being a success.  The comment "The same points HP
used to justify killing MPE apply to HP-UX, so now is the time to start
moving off of the proprietary HP-UX OS and onto Linux".  Effectively, in
killing MPE HP has severely wounded HP-UX and added considerable doubt
about its future.

That said, the applications we currently have running make use of MPE/iX
7.0 features.  Running on a prior version of MPE/iX isn't an option.  From
my perspective, building an emulator for anything other than 7.5 (or, at a
stretch, 7.0) is no better than no emulator at all.

John