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========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 07:15:05 -0400
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Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <bradmcc@CLOUD9.NET>
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Subject: Re: Archiving obsolete machines
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Les Earnest wrote:
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>I believe that old hardware and software should be preserved separately. In order to be able to exercise the latter, write an emulator in some language that you expect to last for awhile. Inasmuch as hardware speeds keep increasing it will usually be possible to emulate old machines at a speed faster than they ever attained.
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Hmmmh.... Does this mean we can now discover "timing" bugs in these systems that no one ever encountered before? Who can we send the APAR reports to?
\\brad mccormick
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Mankind is not the master of all the stuff that exists, but Everyman (woman, child) is a judge of the world.
Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / bradmcc@cloud9.net 914.238.0788 / 27 Poillon Rd, Chappaqua, NY 10514-3403 USA ------------------------------------------------------- <![%THINK;[SGML]]> Visit my website ==> http://www.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/
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Reply-To: bradmcc@cloud9.net
Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <bradmcc@CLOUD9.NET>
Organization: AbiCo. <![%THINK;[SGML]]>
Subject: Re: Archiving obsolete machines
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
Les Earnest wrote:
[snip]
>I believe that old hardware and software should be preserved separately. In order to be able to exercise the latter, write an emulator in some language that you expect to last for awhile. Inasmuch as hardware speeds keep increasing it will usually be possible to emulate old machines at a speed faster than they ever attained.
[snip]
Hmmmh.... Does this mean we can now discover "timing" bugs in these systems that no one ever encountered before? Who can we send the APAR reports to?
\\brad mccormick
--
Mankind is not the master of all the stuff that exists, but Everyman (woman, child) is a judge of the world.
Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / bradmcc@cloud9.net 914.238.0788 / 27 Poillon Rd, Chappaqua, NY 10514-3403 USA ------------------------------------------------------- <![%THINK;[SGML]]> Visit my website ==> http://www.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/
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