22 Nov
2006
22 Nov
'06
10:39 a.m.
On Nov 21, 2006, at 5:43 PM, Chris M wrote:
What's with the "dangerous"?? If you have an old
unit, and would like to see it operational for years
to come, what's the problem with using such
replacements (if available)?
And frankly what's wrong with an emulation? If it
works, fulfills a need, what's the problem?
Nothing of course...it depends on whether your focus is the
hardware or the software. I've known people who have dumpstered
classic machines when they discover emulators, because they think the
software is the end-all, be-all of computing technology history. For
them, emulators fill 100% of the need...the ability to see the
software in action.
Personally, I'm interested in both the hardware and the software,
with a slight emphasis on the hardware...but my strongest interest is
the *architecture*, so implementing it in an FPGA is something that
I'm interested in. Despite the opinions of some, I believe there's
no commonality at all between implementing a particular architecture
in an FPGA and running an emulator on another computer. One can
stretch and redefine and whatever if one really wants to see it that
way, but I believe it's just that...a stretch.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
Am i the only one that feels that using modern
FPGA's to recreate
old CPU's is getting dangerously close to
just
running an emulation
> on a modern PC ?