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Yes it may not be the prettiest but I can get 20 year old games to run with relatively little troubleshooting.

• rbanffy 2y ago
  You can still run 50 year old games on your newest IBM Z16 mainframe. Microsoft is just a baby in this business. If you have a Unisys Clearpath boxes, you can even get get some 60 year old games running, provided you can read the punchcards ;-)
  • bitwize 2y ago
    Fun fact: Unisys Clearpath today is just x86 boxen emulating the old Burroughs CPU architecture. You can even deploy Clearpath instances to AWS. And they still run Mr. High and Mighty Master Control, too.
    • rbanffy 2y ago
      MCP is the most user hostile OS I’ve ever had the displeasure of using. And don’t even start me about CANDE.
      • bitwize 2y ago
        To answer your other comment: yes, the MCP from Tron was named after the Burroughs/Unisys OS. Bonnie MacBird, the screenwriter for Tron, is the wife of Alan Kay, who served as technical consultant, and she dropped references both to himself (Alan Bradley) and his areas of interest (Kay loved the Burroughs architecture and in particular its tagged-memory features) in the script for the movie. Interesting to learn the real MCP was nearly as hostile as its fictional namesake.