[rescue] Screw (software) emulators!

[Ken Hansen]

Ooh! Oooh! Oooh!

Take a look here:

    http://www.tiac.net/users/mps/retro/

and the PDP-4 hardware simulation:

    http://www.spies.com/~dgc/pdp4x/

Very, very cool...

Thanks again for the link,

Ken 8^)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Hansen" <n2vip at yahoo.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Screw (software) emulators!


> I *love* it - I wonder how the speed compares to the original, and I
wonder
> if it would bepossible for him to market such a "clean room" copy?
>
> Could one fothe more knowledgeable folks out there explain for us "regular
> folk" how hard it is to emulate a complete system (CPU, etc) in a FPGA
> (Field Programmable Gate Array)? It seems very rough, but then again,
> someone appraching the "problem" of building a PDP-8 with the benefit of
> modern tools has a distinct advantade over the original designers...
>
> It would be great to take that design, get a legal binary of an
appropriate
> OS and drop some software on it like BASIC-PLUS.
>
> Then you could drop it all in an external drive case and have a PDP/8
> computer appliance!
>
> And just think, if they could port Linux to it...
>
> ;^)
>
> Thanks, for a very cool link...
>
> Ken
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Newell" <newell at cei.net>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 7:14 PM
> Subject: [rescue] Screw emulators!
>
>
> > Want a silent PDP-8 with an IDE drive?
> >
> >
> > http://surfin.spies.com/~dgc/pdp8x/
> >
> > Sorry, no front panel.
> >
> >
> > newell
> >
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