Reproducing old machines with newer technology

Rod Smallwood rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com
Tue Jul 14 16:35:02 CDT 2015


Hi
    Oscar Vermeulen managed to get an 8/I replica going using a 
Raspberry Pi and  Bob's code.
You do have to hook into the code of course. I  want to do an 8/e the 
same way.
Regards Rod


On 14/07/2015 20:25, Paul Koning wrote:
>> On Jul 14, 2015, at 2:42 PM, Rod Smallwood <rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>
>> Back at a more general level. To my way of thinking what Bob Supnik did in software can be extended by producing a hardware replica vehicle for his code to give the illusion that the original system has been recreated. A sort of machine Turing test if you will.
> I don’t think so, because SIMH does not (and does not aim to) deliver all the obscure details of the original hardware, only those that are relevant to ordinary software.
>
> 	paul
>



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