[extropy-chat] Is simulation recursion a problem?

[Russell Wallace]

On 9/19/06, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> George I have wondered about this.  Back in the days, we had Apple Panic
> on
> the Apple II running the eight bit 6502 at a blazing 2.8 MEGAHERTZ!  Then
> we
> had the sixteen bit 12 MHz 68000, on which we ran Apple II
> emulators.  Then
> we had the 90 MHz Pentiums, which should be plenty powerful enough to run
> a
> 68000 emulator, and now we have 32 bit Pentium 4s running at clock speeds
> a
> thousand times faster than the 2.8 MHz 6502, so we should be able to take
> a
> 4 GHz P4, run a P90 emulator running a 68000 emulator running a 6502
> emulator running Apple Panic, which was actually a very cool game, one I
> have never seen again since 25 years ago.  We should try it just for
> laughs.
>

It's been done in the mainframe world: there are a handful of 60s vintage
programs, which embody too much domain knowledge to be easily rewritten,
being run on modern IBM gear through three or four levels of emulation.
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