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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Historical architectural advances??
Message-ID: <2768@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 90 20:31:44 GMT
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In article <8185@scolex.sco.COM> seanf (Sean Fagan) writes:

| Uhm... in that case, you could always run interpreted code, a la Sweet-16.
| Doesn't make the 6502 a 16-bit machine, nor a mini-computer, though.

  Amazing what you can do with interpreted code if you throw enough
power at ti... A few years ago I got a program which did some data
analysis on some number of interest. The problem was that the program
was for Apple ][, and the source long gone. However, I found an Apple ][
simulator, written in PL-I. Unfortunately the only PL-I I have handy is
for CP/M, and my CP/M system was doing something else.

  Not to worry, I have a simulator for CP/M which runs under DOS, but I
don't usually have a DOS machine home. I do, however, have DOS
encapsulation under UNIX, and that's how I finally ran it. The Apple ][
simulator compiled and ran under CP/M-80, as simulated under DOS, as
encapsulated under UNIX, as run on a 386.

  The original version ran 12 minutes to do a data set, the deeply
simulated version ran seven, on a system which was also supporting
several BBS users and a uucp connection doing a news feed.

  If you didn't use micros in the 70's, you can't appreciate how far
they've come.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.