RSTS emulation in a browser

John Foust jfoust at threedee.com
Tue Dec 10 15:09:40 CST 2019


At 02:04 PM 12/10/2019, Boris Gimbarzevsky wrote:
>Downloaded files for previous PDP-11 emulator but couldn't get it to run.  Link to German site at bottom of your post works fine and Unix runs about same speed that it ran on my 11/34 in 1983.  Scary that coding a PDP-11 emulator in an incredibly inefficient scripting language such as Javascript matches speed of the machine I was using back then.

Google says JavaScript is now only two to seven times slower than C++.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJPdhx5zTaw>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJPdhx5zTaw 

https://blog.reactiveconf.com/5-reasons-why-javascript-is-eating-the-world-bbc4aca0a527 

- John



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