18 Jun
2009
18 Jun
'09
3:05 p.m.
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.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
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?