[LMH]Re: [LispM-Hackers] Latex

[James A. Crippen]

John Morrison <jm@mak.com> writes:

> Cross-developing an emulator for one machine upon an emulator for
> another machine is just too delicious.  What enormous potential hack
> value.  Talk about *bootstrapping*.  Everything else would seem
> positively *amateur*.

I'm all for it.  Just for pure balls-to-the-wall madness.

I'm seeing first resurrecting the MacLisp-based LispM emulator that
was used before the hardware was stable.  Then using that to build the
CADR emulator.

So you'd have a PDP-10 emulator running ITS and MacLisp, with that
emulating the LispM.  Then using that emulated emulator to build
another emulator.

Better have a fast machine!!!

'james

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