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On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:32:45PM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote: > late as v6.2, introduced in 1995. So there's no reason in principle > that we couldn't build a very recent version of Perl, possibly even > 5.10, on a 30-year-old board system (you heard me right, the 11/780 > did not have a microprocessor). We'd have to find somebody still > running one that had adequate memory and disk space and was willing to > donate (I'd guess) a month or two of processing time. Or you could Surely we could cheat by building it on the emulator, and then running make test (or some subset) on the real machine? > prove it's possible using the 11/780 emulator in SIMH > (http://simh.trailing-edge.com). It would be completely useless as > well as completely cool, but it would drive home your point that How much faster is the emulator than the real hardware? I couldn't easily find the answer to that on the site. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next