FPGA VAX update

e.stiebler emu at ecubics.com
Thu Nov 3 07:25:23 CST 2005


Holger Veit wrote:

 > [... lot  before ... ]

> When Hillary climbed the Mount Everest 50 years ago, it was something 
> new, extraordinary. When tourist nowadays use sort of stairways to reach 
> the top (okay, it's not *that* extreme now), it is just uninteresting. 
> But standing on the top, is still a challenge and an experience for the 
> individual. However, what we lost now is a sense of wonder - that small 
> ALU based TTL circuit was built by myself, and I did it, and it is 
> irrelevant that some idiot could download a digital simulator and click 
> the same circuit together on a PC screen. I guess this is what makes the 
> difference between a real PDP-11 with some ridiculous 5MB storage disks 
> compared to a SIMH emulator running on a 3GHz Pentium.
> Watch the blinkenlights.
Well said !!!


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