28 Feb
2001
28 Feb
'01
6:22 p.m.
At 07:26 AM 2/28/01 -0500, ip500/craig wrote:
Anyone using or hacking a Wang VS-100 system
for anything these
days? I
ran across a very complete looking one in a storage building but as it's
reasonably huge I've left it for the time being. O/S is unique to Wang
is it not? Too proprietary to be of any use?
Thanks, Craig
I haven't used a VS system myself, but if you want to get a flavor of what
it is
like, try running this Wang VS emulator:
http://home.planet.nl/~ernest/vs.html
It isn't a simple binary emulator; instead, the author is recreating the system
at the OS call level. The author has a 45 minute each way train commute, so
he has spent the last 8 years or something working on it in bits and pieces.
What a slog!
Anyway, it's something to get you going.
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Jim Battle == frustum(a)pacbell.net