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On Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 12:36:51 PM UTC-5, Scott Lurndal wrote:
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an...@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
> >
sc...@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
> >That probably says more about the software development process for the
> >replacement than about the utility of even fixed-point decimal.
> Or the difficulties inherent in translating 30 year old COBOL
> applications to JAVA or some such.
<
Y2K was nearly 30 years ago, there is a lot of COBOL from the 60s (nearly
80 years ago......)
<
> The
> >hardware of a 2010 Windows box running a competently written, but
> >straightforward Burroughs simulator is likely to outperform a 1980s
> >hardware implementation of the same architecture,
> That`s true. I have a simulator for that machine (in C++, running
> on unix/linux). And indeed, on a modern processor, it can match,
> or exceed, the performance of the actual hardware. In 2010, it
> would have been a lot closer.
>
> Unfortunately, the simulator wasn`t of interest at the site (City
> of Santa Ana) for a number of reasons, the lack of COBOL programmers
> being one, and the lack of support by Unisys being another.
>
> The retired system (a V380) is currently at the (now closed) Living History
> Museum where it had been operational prior to the pandemic and museum
> closure.
> >However, I expect that the requirements for the replacement was to do
> >something other than a straight simulation of the old stuff.
> Indeed. And the simulator was a hobby project of mine rather than a
> Unisys product albeit fully functional supporting a wide range of
> simulated (and host-based) peripherals.
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