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I love the fact the Computer History Museum is keeping this source alive. But without an Alto Emulator, it's almost worthless. Kinda sad how much technology is
by primis 12y ago
I love the fact the Computer History Museum is keeping this source alive. But without an Alto Emulator, it's almost worthless. Kinda sad how much technology is dead simply because the hardware is gone to run it.
- technomancy 12y agoIt's a shame the license they're offering it under is restrictive; non-commercial use only means it's not DFSG-friendly or anything.
- vidarh 12y agoThere appears to be at least a couple of emulators: http://toastytech.com/guis/salto.html http://toastytech.com/guis/salto.html http://sourceforge.net/projects/altogether/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/altogether/
- bane 12y agoNot an emulator but: http://toastytech.com/guis/salto.html http://toastytech.com/guis/salto.html Honestly, the release of this might stir somebody to get one going. It would be a weird beast to emulate though.
- lloeki 12y agoProbably not as much as a Setun? This is the only ternary computer emulator I could find: http://tunguska.sourceforge.net/ http://tunguska.sourceforge.net/
- tkinom 12y agoEvolution? One might be able to recover some old species' DNA - it is not enough to clone it back to life.
- jonjacky 12y agoHere is an emulator of Alto Smalltalk-72 by Dan Ingalls, the original implementor. http://lively-web.org/users/Dan/ALTO-Smalltalk-72.html http://lively-web.org/users/Dan/ALTO-Smalltalk-72.html It says that it is emulating the Nova instruction set - the Alto hardware manual at http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/xerox/alto/Alto_Hardware_Manual_Aug76.pdf http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/xerox/alto/... says that the standard microcode on the Alto emulated the Nova.