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> I'm sure Paul Allen could have written an 8080 machine code interpreter if he wanted to That's what I was thinking. These guys were pretty bright and an 8080
by HeyLaughingBoy 3y ago
> I'm sure Paul Allen could have written an 8080 machine code interpreter if he wanted to
That's what I was thinking. These guys were pretty bright and an 8080 is not exactly a complex CPU. It wouldn't be a trivial task by any means, but I'm sure he or billg could have pulled it off.
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- gumby 3y agoYeah I wrote one when I was in high school (on a PDP-10 running ITS in fact). Don't get me wrong: I doubt it was enough enough to run a BASIC implementation but the 8080 instruction set is so simple that I was able to write a few simple bit-manipulation programs and believe they worked. I'm sure Allen's was much more capable, but it would not have needed to do any of the things expected of a modern emulator (timing, cache, complex addressing modes, interrupts...)