12 Dec
2000
12 Dec
'00
7:27 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Megan" <mbg(a)world.std.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: Unix and 2038
like this,
>Still I wonder how many emulators can one run under
another? I know
>I've done Linux -> DOS -> CP/M, Linux
-> Linux doesn't
count (self-
referencing
variables ;-).
I've often wondered about this myself... using a technique one might approach the speed of the original hardware
--
from the
other side, of course...
Imagine a pdp-8 emulater, running under RT-11 on an
emulated-11, running
under TOPS-10 on an emulated-10, etc... As I said, you
might end up
having a pdp-8 emulator which is slowed down far
enough to
match the
speed of the original hardware... :-)
Is anyone collecting the emulators?
They'd take up a lot less space and be much easier to move
or ship across the country. Maybe we could designate them
with an e such as PDP-11e to indicate an emulator in the
collection.
Wouldn't need to worry as much about carrying the right
tools, the spouse would never know how many we really
had,...