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People routinely boot DOS in e.g. qemu. The x86 ISA is 45 years old, older if you consider the 8008/8080 part of the lineage. It's not pretty, but it's probably
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
People routinely boot DOS in e.g. qemu. The x86 ISA is 45 years old, older if you consider the 8008/8080 part of the lineage. It's not pretty, but it's probably the most widespread backwards compatible system out there.
- elzbardico 3y agoS/360 assembly programs probably would still run on a modern IBM mainframe. Punched cards kept in an inert atmosphere probably would last for centuries, and along with printed documentation in archival-quality paper would allow future generations to come up with card readers and an emulator to actually run the program.