remember the paper in software p & e where some chap emulated the 11 using a dg
nova and fortran
ran v7 (or was it v6) a 3% of the speed of an 11/34
i remember asking dennis about it
his opinion was that it was quite a feat of engineering
i had a friend who did something similar
he had a 32v tape and was running vms
so he loaded the tape onto disk and wrote code to unpick the blocks and grabbed
the binaries for as and cc and would load them high and trap "change mode to
kernel" (i forget what the instruction is/was) and emulated the unix system calls
with bits for fortran
got the assembler, c compiler and sundry other stuff running
this was in 1979
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