Cray X-MP Simulator Resurrects Piece of Computer History

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @04:35AM from the just-plain-cray-zee-ness! dept.

An anonymous reader writes "If you have a fascination with old supercomputers, like I do, this project might tickle your interest: A functional simulation of a Cray X-MP supercomputer, which can boot to its old batch operating system, called COS. It's complete with hard drive and tape simulation (no punch card readers, sorry) and consoles. Source code and binaries are available. You can also read about the journey that got me there, like recovering the OS image from a 30 year old hard drive or reverse-engineering CRAY machine code to understand undocumented tape drive operation and disk file-systems."

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Anonymous? by Jmc23 · 2013-06-26 04:45 · Score: 3, Funny

If you want to be anonymous, linking to your blog with your full name probably isn't the way to go!

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can I run it on my cellphone? by peter303 · 2013-06-26 05:34 · Score: 3, Funny

and would it be faster than the original?
Sweet! by Nidi62 · 2013-06-26 06:13 · Score: 4, Funny

Now I can sequence that old dinosaur DNA I got from this chunk of amber sitting in my closet!

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