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- From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
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- Subject: Re: Proposal: Computer History Project, & backwards compat
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- Date: 29 Jul 92 01:12:46 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.144643.19792@crl.dec.com> <LYNCH.92Jul28122313@flubber.cc.utexas.edu>
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- In article <LYNCH.92Jul28122313@flubber.cc.utexas.edu> lynch@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Tom Lynch) writes:
- > 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.
- Wasn't this sort of what IBM did in the early 360s that emulated the 1401,
- etc.?
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- Whether we re-implemented a historic machine in new hardware or ran
- an emulator on a modern machine, there are very few people who would
- want to run old software. I love to wax nostalgic about what fun some
- old machines were; but when I think of what I use computers for today
- it is so different from what we used them for then...
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