EDSAC on your desk.

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Mon Sep 21 23:45:30 1998

At 01:57 AM 22-09-98 +0000, Eric Smith wrote:

>Yes, but as part-owner of a DECsystem 1090, I can assure you that storing
>it is only a small portion of the problem.

Indeedy. Our air conditioning plant was designed to cool one DECsystem-10
and it has been modified a couple of times as we replaced it with only five
or six largish VAXes and the cold deck kept freezing (even on 40C summer
days)...

>Simulation may not be as exciting, but it certainly is more practical.
>
>And besides, a simulated PDP-10 on a Pentium 2 is much faster than a real
>PDP-10 :-)

I guess this is a copy of the unobtainable -10 simulator? How does it model
disks etc?

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