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- From: lynch@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Tom Lynch)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Proposal: Computer History Project, & backwards compat
- Message-ID: <LYNCH.92Jul28122313@flubber.cc.utexas.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 17:23:13 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.144643.19792@crl.dec.com>
- Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
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- In-reply-to: stewart@crl.dec.com's message of 24 Jul 92 14:46:43 GMT
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- Modern computers are so much faster than historic machines that
- it is possible to emulate the instruction set and I/O systems
- of a historic machine at full speed. Thus students will be
- able to actually sit down and use TENEX running on an emulated
- PDP-10, or Bravo on a Xerox Alto, even when no more PDP-10's or
- Altos exist.
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- This sounds like an argument for backwards compatibility.
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- -tom Nothing is Absolute!
- lynch@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu Absolutely.
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