We didn't have magical slabs of glass that could emulate a whole VAX VMS 11/780 system as a fun exercise in nostalgia, like my cheap ass Motorola phone can ;-)

We didn't have magical slabs of glass that could emulate a whole VAX VMS 11/780 system as a fun exercise in nostalgia, like my cheap ass Motorola phone can ;-) We were living in an era where floppy disks were so much faster than punch cards, paper tape, cassettes, or just typing in programs after boot. VMs and Sandboxes get close, but there's always the danger of virtual machine escape. WASM should be able to get us there, if we can keep people from wanting to make it Posix compatible and giving it file/network access.