On 01/23/2017 09:42 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 01/23/2017 07:45 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > > This blog seems to indicate that there is NO 7074, but an emulator > running on 370 hardware. >> http://nikhilism.com/post/2016/systems-we-love/ > > This makes a lot more sense, some of these microcode emulations were > still available of fairly late machines. Also, it probably would not > be real hard to write a decent emulator for the 7074 and run it on > modern hardware. Once you are using emulation, why not keep the host > hardware current? > > Too bad the excerpts from the original talk are totally scrambled.
It wouldn't surprise me if the IBM S/370 isn't being emulated as well. It wouldn't be the first time for "nested" emulation. Is there a "recursive" emulator setup wherein one machine emulates another one...where the final emulation is for the original hardware? --Chuck
