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Don't Nurse Old Hardware - Emulate It

Posted by timothy on from the stand-ins dept.

gManZboy writes "Bob Supnik, former team lead for DEC's VAX microprossesor, has an article up on Queue about his Computer History Simulation Project and how emulating old servers may be a better way to keep them running that servicing the physical machines. So how many PDP-11's can you run on a Pentium 4 anyhow?"

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  1. legal issues? by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 1, Troll

    What about legal issues here, Nintendo own the rights to emulation if I recall correctly. Couldn't they pull the plug on this?

    Emulating a server may also cross a few patents Microsoft own..

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  2. Re:I disagree by CommanderData · · Score: 0, Troll

    You might want to retire early. Just take up smoking or drinking to reduce your lifespan by those 3 years if you don't have enough saved up yet.

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  3. Re:Can't believe no one's thought of this by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 1, Troll

    Christ. The truth is, Slashdot is basically a Gamer site. It's quite abnormal to see a real computer story here.

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