20 Sep
1998
20 Sep
'98
5:18 p.m.
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
Simulators are the single best way to preserve classic
machines for
future generations. Of course, once the hosts the simulations run on are
themselves obsolete, you've got a problem. So, IMHO, all simulators
should be written in Java so that there's a good chance they'll run on
future machines.
This in itself is a pretty big assumption.
The most absolute way to ensure old machine simulators live on is by
developing a human-understable pseudo-programming language that's based on
logic flow diagrams, then converting all the simulators into this
language, then getting it standardized, then fending off all the microsoft
"improvements", then suing them for corrupting the language...
Or just write them in BASIC. Everyone knows BASIC, and despite best
efforts, its not going away.
BASIC RULES!
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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