Burroughs B5000 emulator

Tor Arntsen kspt.tor at gmail.com
Fri Oct 21 18:34:22 CDT 2016


On 21 October 2016 at 16:37, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> A friend of mine is working on an emulator for this Burroughs Large
> Systems beast.
[..]
> I have suggested to him that it might be easier to work under an
> existing mini/mainframe emulator, such as SimH or maybe even
> MESS/MAME, but he is highly resistant to this idea, for reasons I do
> not really understand.
>
> I'm interested in opinions: do folk think that it would help, or not?

I fully understand. Not everything is easily tweaked to fit into those
frameworks. When I wrote my two minicomputer emulators I couldn't see
how on earth I could get that working inside simh without increasing
the work needed ten or fifty times. There wasn't anything there that
would help me for what I had in mind.


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