Jerome Fine wrote:
>
> >McFadden, Mike wrote:
>
> > I know that I will have computers in 2038 that I have now.
>
> Jerome Fine replies:
>
> If I am still around in 2038, I am also hoping to still run software
> that was first produced about 30 years ago. But I don't expect
> that I will be able to use the same hardware - but who knows -
> might a power supply last that long? I have a number of PDP-11
> systems in a BA23 box which is about the same size as the full
> tower PC that I am using right now that I bought 3 years ago with
> W95. Fortunately, there are a number of emulators for PDP-11
> software that run just as well under DOS/W95/W98 as on a real
> PDP-11. In fact, the PC is a Pentium 166 MMX and runs PDP-11
> code about twice as fast as a real PDP-11/93. When I eventually
> switch to a current Pentium III 800, I expect the ratio to be about
> ten times as fast.
I'm betting only 4 times as fast (maybe 5). Just because you've quad'd
the clock (internally) doesn't mean you see a 400% increase in total
response. Besides when you load the next version of WinX it'll boot
about as fast as my Atari 800 off the disk. :-)
Still I wonder how many emulators can one run under another? I know
I've done Linux -> DOS -> CP/M, Linux -> Linux doesn't count (self-
referencing variables ;-).
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Received on Mon Dec 11 2000 - 22:56:42 GMT