10 Dec
2019
10 Dec
'19
1:09 p.m.
At 02:04 PM 12/10/2019, Boris Gimbarzevsky wrote:
Downloaded files for previous PDP-11 emulator but
couldn't get it to run. Link to German site at bottom of your post works fine and
Unix runs about same speed that it ran on my 11/34 in 1983. Scary that coding a PDP-11
emulator in an incredibly inefficient scripting language such as Javascript matches speed
of the machine I was using back then.
Google says JavaScript is now only two to seven times slower than C++.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJPdhx5zTaw>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJPdhx5zTaw
https://blog.reactiveconf.com/5-reasons-why-javascript-is-eating-the-world-…
- John