So how's the in-browser experience? Also, anyone know how the emulators are written? For example, current s/w is converted to the browser by compiling to LLVM then via Emscripten, are converted to asm.js/javascript.
-- Owen On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Parks, Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah, I checked out the software archive and Immediately saw things I > haven't seen in years. > > I have Visicalc (which still works on my Windows 7 Home Premium system - > which says a lot, good and bad, about Microsoft backwards combatability). > > WordStar always reminded me of Mass 11 and Wang word processing, all of > which I found cumbersome and irritating. My first home computer, a > Columbia (as in Maryland) 96% IBM PC clone, had the PerfectOffice > collection (long before Microsoft Office). PerfectWriter, PerfectCalc, and > a couple of other Perfects (DB and mail, I seem to remember). One evening > in 1984 I called from my home in Omaha to the support number and was told > by a nice lady to call back later as they were eating dinner. When I did > call back she asked me to please wait a second. In the background, I heard > her yell a male name with the instructions to come up from the basement. A > few minutes later, a young voice proceeded to help me with my technical > question. The nerd in the basement meme had not been created at that > point, but when it came along later I knew exactly what it was about. BTW, > PerfectWriter was like Emacs in TeX mode and PerfectCalc solved the sparse > matrix problem by storing the spreadsheet as the ASCII keystrokes necessary > to recreate it. > > I first played Adventure on a Data General computer. I took a class at > their development center in Westboro, Mass, where the motorcycle gang > developed the RDOS and AOS/VS Command LIne Interpreter (CLI) that would > answer the command "xyzzy" with "Nothing happens". You have to have played > Colossal Cave Adventure to understand the reference. I think that was the > first Easter egg I discovered in software. > > Ray Parks > Consilient Heuristician/IDART Program Manager > V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 > NIPR: [email protected] > SIPR: [email protected] (send NIPR reminder) > JWICS: [email protected] (send NIPR reminder) > > > > On Oct 29, 2013, at 11:27 AM, glen e. p. ropella wrote: > > > For many of the same reasons, I also found this site interesting: > > http://www.compileonline.com/index.php > > "Compile and Execute your favorite programming languages online, click any > of the following to proceed!" > > I honestly had never heard of Malbolge, Factor, and Fantom. > > > Gary Schiltz wrote at 10/29/2013 09:43 AM: > > Wow, that�s cool. It�s a shame that so much software will never see the > light of day. Many billions of dollars were spent developing software in > the 80s for the DOD as well as Soviet agencies. I�ve heard it argued that > the USSR lost the cold war mainly because the USA made them spend so much > on defense, and quite a sizable chunk of that was for software. > > > Gary > > > On Oct 29, 2013, at 11:31 AM, glen e. p. ropella <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > https://archive.org/details/historicalsoftware > > > "This collection contains selected historically important software > packages from the Internet Archive's software archives. Through the use of > in-browser emulators, it is possible to try out these items and experiment > with using them, without the additional burdens of installing emulator > software or tracking down the programs. Many of these software products > were the first of their kind, or utilized features and approaches that have > been copied or recreated on many programs since. (historic software, > vintage software, antique software)" > > > -- > glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com > If you disclose the solution to the mystery you are simply depriving the > other seekers of an important source of energy. -- Conchis, "The Magus" by > John Fowles > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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