EDSAC on your desk.

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Sun Sep 20 23:38:16 1998

On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, John Lawson wrote:

> It can be had at: www.ocs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac

s/ocs/dcs

> Sam: Possibly a neat item at VCF II would be to have a box running
> this simulator... it certainly gives instant awareness of what it
> was like back in the Old Days.

Simulators are the single best way to preserve classic machines for
future generations. Of course, once the hosts the simulations run on are
themselves obsolete, you've got a problem. So, IMHO, all simulators
should be written in Java so that there's a good chance they'll run on
future machines.

-- Doug
Received on Sun Sep 20 1998 - 23:38:16 BST

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