[TUHS] long lived programs

[Lawrence Stewart]

Suppose we define a machine architecture not for building hardware, but specifically for itself being easy to emulate?

This is by analogy to para-virtualized device drivers, which are not there to model real devices, but to be easy to support in a virtual machine environment.
 

> On 2018, Mar 23, at 12:25 PM, Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:
> 
> Clem Cole wrote:
>> Ron Natalie wrote:
>>> The bigger issue than software getting obsoleted is that the platform
>>> needed to run it goes away. 
>> 
>> Although simh is huge step in that direction ;)
> 
> I imagine a future where SIMH itself only runs on obsolete platforms and
> has to be run inside an emulator.  Repeat, etc etc.