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On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 09:01:51AM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:51:42AM -0300, Brian Fraser wrote: > > > >> Ooh, thank you! I'll push the branch with those changes later today. > >> (As a side note, VMS actually sounds like a pretty fun system; I wish that > >> I could just emulate it locally) > > > > In theory you could run it on emulated hardware, as there is a "hobbyist > > license" available. > > There are various Alpha emulators around and I think they all have a > free option, usually somewhat limited in memory (can mktables do its > think in 128MB?). If you have recent enough HP-UX kit, you can run I've run it on a 32 bit system that only has 16M of real RAM and 96M of swap. 128M of RAM would be a luxury :-) (No-one said that it was *fast*. Nor was it quiet. But it completed) You could probably build Perl 5 natively on most smartphones released in the past 3 years, if they had an OS with a toolchain. Hardware is getting bloated faster than we are. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next