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IBM wrote APL\360 in 360 assembly language. The IBM 5100 personal computer had a small cpu. They wanted APL on the 5100, so they implemented a 360 emulator and
by gregfjohnson 2y ago
IBM wrote APL\360 in 360 assembly language. The IBM 5100 personal computer had a small cpu. They wanted APL on the 5100, so they implemented a 360 emulator and ran the original implementation of APL on that.
- m463 2y agoI thought it was pretty cool when they had a pci(?) card you could add to a PC that could run VM/SP
- fredoralive 2y agoThe later generation mainframe-in-a-PC cards were PCI, but they’d also done MCA and ISA ones, going back to the XT/370. The XT/370 is particularly bonkers, as it uses a combo of a 68000 and an 8087 with custom microcode in them to run System 370 code.
- gattilorenz 2y agoAnd that’s why John Titor came back :)