Peter Köhlmann <peter.koehlmann@xxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
>> I bet it doesn't take long for the emulator to appear. :)
> You bet wrong. The hardware would not be easy to emulate, and it would make
> the system slow to boot
Ah gowan
If you can emulate an x86 or a motorola 680x0, how much more difficult would
it be to emulate one of those mainframes?
FROM THE 1960s?
OK, the only difficulty in writing an emulator to run them on is reference
hardware isn't available to reverse engineer.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if a 1986 Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128 would've
given one of those mainframes from the '60s a run for their money.
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