21 May
2016
21 May
'16
9:22 a.m.
On 21 May 2016 at 17:58, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, I know - but so what? That is nothing new. The
IBM 9370 line from
20-odd years ago was really an 801 inside, running S/370 in emulation.
I thought it was noteworthy considering that this subthread originated
in discussion of how all contemporary processors conformed to certain
norms.
This example of one that doesn't -- a 36-bit processor which doesn't
use 2's complement and so on -- today exists only as a software
emulation on an underlying architecture that /does/ conform and which
thus doesn't really resemble the architecture being emulated.
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