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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Can old architectures run fast?
Message-ID: <3404@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 6 May 91 13:58:06 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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In article <1991May05.174756.9026@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:

| Well, there's always the IBM 360.  You can still run 1965 vintage 360
| binaries on IBM's latest 3090 mainframe.  

  And Honeywell. Things compiled in GECOS-II in 1963 or so seem to run
on the latest Honeywell DPS systems as well.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
        "Most of the VAX instructions are in microcode,
         but halt and no-op are in hardware for efficiency"