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| Authored by: Chromatix on Sunday, June 10 2012 @ 11:00 PM EDT |
| And, just today, I saw a system which converts the Atari ST version of Elite
Frontier - an old but very famous game - to run natively on a modern PC. One
can also run the original game - say, the Amiga version - in an emulator.
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| Authored by: Ian Al on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 11:46 AM EDT |
What they actually did was emulate an x86 PC which would, just, allow MSDOS and
Windows 3.1 to be installed if you were lucky to have enough HDD and RAM.
Surprisingly, it was totally horrible and completely useless as a general
purpose computer quite apart from having Windows 3.1 as an operating system.
Which makes the point that the algorithmic instruction set provided by
processors is universal. Not only can all source code be written in all
languages and translated from one to the other, that principle extends all the
way down to the math algorithmic instruction set in all the processors.
All that matters is how good the approximation to the hypothetical, Turing,
universal, mathematical-algorithm-computing device in your computer case,
actually is.
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Regards
Ian Al
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