18 Jun
2009
18 Jun
'09
5:17 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jun 18, 2009, at 5:59 PM, Ray Arachelian wrote:
You're right, I guess I'll go scrap my house full of PDP-8s,
PDP-11s, and DECsystem-2020 since they can all be completely replaced
by emulators.
Where, exactly, did I ever suggest anyone should do such a thing?
Certainly you cannot run software without hardware, but the point is
that hardware without software is just as useless.
I have taken exception to the anti-emulator sentiment, but that does not
mean that I would promote the destruction of older hardware in favor of
just emulation.
You've apparently *not* been reading what I actually wrote, but rather
assuming.
Oh good
lord. Can we give this up? SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT
COMPUTING IS MORE THAN JUST SOFTWARE. Get over it.
You're right. People believe lots of interesting, and strange stuff.
But maybe I'm missing something here, so remind me again, just how does
one get a Von Neumann architecture machine to *COMPUTE* something
without that machine invoking any instruction/opcode/microcode at all?