[geeks] Crackpot project, need some guidance

[gsm at mendelson.com]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 05:51:55PM -0400, Shannon wrote:
>A real crackpot idea I have right now is to simulate a 50s/60s era
>machine using shell script, like each one does a different function, and
>things like named pipes become busses, etc.
>
>For awhile I worked on a Univac emulator. It was an odd machine that did
>decimal math.

Sounds like the IBM machines of that era. They had two kind, the decimal
ones for business, and the scientific ones with floating point. Both AFAIK
had integer.

The IBM 360 was their first machine with all 3, and they added vector
processing in the late 1980's.

>The problem was I could not find any Univac code and didn't feel like
>writing my own and all the tools chains it might have had, so I
>eventually gave up.

I had that idea in high school when I became enamoured with APL. Having only
an HP2000 Basic system to use, I wrote an APL interpreter in BASIC. :-)

Geoff.
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