On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Jerome Fine wrote:
> Jerome Fine replies:
>
> While I probably don't really understand someone who's goal is using the
> original hardware, on the other hand, I find that any software development
Hmmmm, this IS the classiccmp list isn't it?
> under an emulator is much more straight forward, much easier AND MUCH
> FASTER.
...and emulators are very, very, boring; and, if run under M$-Windoze,
much less reliable and more likely to crash or lose data. The sound
of fans, the chatter and kerchunking of disk drives, the clicking
contactors when mains power is applied, the vacuum and whirring sounds
of a mag tape drive starting up, the blinking of lights, etc. are all
parts of the experience of using vintage computer systems.
Aye Jerome, surely you don't want to be thought of as an
anti-classic-computer emulator loving weenie, do you? ;-) After all,
can it not be said that emulators are, for the most part, preferred by
weenies who can't lift a PDP-11/44 PSU and are afraid of being shocked
by one, who can't pop a tall cabinet into the back of a real, not one
of those little foreign match-box size, station station wagons to haul
it home, who don't know a screwdriver from an SMD drive cable, or who
can't even figure out how to disassemble and reassemble a couple of
linked paperclips?
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