Simulating everything for a computer museum is like a regular museum having nothing but
reproduction artifacts. It doesn't work well.
But, not everyone can get to the hardware. I've been playing with OpenVMS lately
myself, using simh to emulate a VAX. My goal is to get a VAX machine, but for now the
simulator has to suffice.
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Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP
On 2012-08-09, at 5:47 PM, ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
So how can the current generation learn about
their computer heritage?
Replicas? Reproductions?
Simulators are good.
Rubbish!
Simulators are nowhere near enough to see what using a machine was really
like. In any case, most people (other than me) could run the simulators
at home, so there's no need for a museum to show them.