5 Jun
2012
5 Jun
'12
12:03 p.m.
On 06/05/2012 12:38 PM, David Brownlee wrote:
I think this is a wonderful piece of work. Congrats on getting it
running! I'm sure that was no easy feat, especially with the VAX's lack
of IEEE floating point support. (which everything seems to depend on
nowadays, whether it does one whit of math or not!)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
I was really
hoping the V in the acronym was going to be VMS.
That certainly would have been much more impressive!
Given the amount of entertainment from some of the packages getting
them working on the VAX platform on a current supported OS, that would
have been a whole new level :)
It's just another *nix box unless you're
running VMS.
Granted, though I would contest its at least an interesting
(hardware-wise) *nix box :)
Retro-computing has various strands - emulators provide massive
accessibility for running old software for those without access to
original hardware, and some of us like running current software on
retro-hardware. I feel there is real benefit for current developers to
remain aware of the characteristics of past hardware, and running
current as well as contemporary software helps, but that may just be
me :)