[rescue] If one person could do it, maybe we could do this in a limited fashion for other platforms as well.

vance at neurotica.com vance at neurotica.com
Mon Sep 8 15:05:59 CDT 2003


On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> > >   I think there are plenty of platforms.  Don't think mass-produced
> > > micros from the 1970s...think minis from the 1960s.  A fellow named
> > > Dave Conroy built a PDP8 implementation in a pair of FPGAs.  He's
> > > also done a PDP4 and is rumored to be working on a PDP10.
> >
> > A PDP10 would rock.  If someone would make a nice kit...
>
> TOPS-10 in a MiniITX form would be *awesome* ;^)

Can't those processors do emulation in hardware or something like that?
(I might be on crack, but I remember something about that.)

> I can see the T-shirts now - "My Laptop runs Multics!"

Emulate a GE/Honeywell/Bull machine?  It would be interesting to try to
find documentation for that.

Peace...  Sridhar



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