From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,427fd748c30f7dfc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-12-24 17:45:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!chcgil2-snh1.gtei.net!news.bbnplanet.com!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dave Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Happy Birthday Ada Message-ID: <1rbkuv00bhdtou9ts1m062lihkca74ug92@4ax.com> References: <3FD86D80.5000606@noplace.com> <3FD8AA39.4000503@noplace.com> <3FE057D6.3030504@noplace.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 01:45:19 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.75.238.116 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1072316719 12.75.238.116 (Thu, 25 Dec 2003 01:45:19 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 01:45:19 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3796 Date: 2003-12-25T01:45:19+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 21:20:46 GMT, "Frank J. Lhota" wrote: > "Marin David Condic" wrote in message > news:3FE057D6.3030504@noplace.com... > > Beyond pure nostalgia, I couldn't see much point. I don't have any > > software that requires a PDP-10 processor. > > For the purposes of nostalgia, there are PC emulators for the TRS-80, the > Commodor 80, and the IBM 360. Presumably, someone has written a PDP-10 > emulator, right? > (At least) three people: KLH10 by Ken Harrenstein (the oldest, and not easily available) SIMH by Bob Supnik (actually a series of emulators of about a dozen historically important or interesting machines) TS10 by Timothy Stark (which according to postings about a year ago he was adding VAX, after which he hasn't been heard from so much) See alt.sys.pdp10 for the gory details, or a convenient summary at http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/pdp10emu.html . - David.Thompson1 at worldnet.att.net