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What is something that's crazier than the wildest dreams of any ~1970s nerd, but exists today? I'll start with an easy one: (thelemmy.club)

submitted 1 week ago by yogurtwrong@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] sudoku@programming.dev 51 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'd imagine someone living in the 70s during the insanely fast computer power progress would have no problem believing that a newer system could emulate older system's code... Wouldn't be surprised that it was already happening back then.

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[–] forbiddencherry@lemmy.today 25 points 1 week ago

Yep, for example, emulation was being used at IBM in the late 60's (and a descendant of it is still in use today, called z/VM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/CMS

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[–] 28RipeBananas@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago

Yeah, but there is also academically knowing something vs actually seeing it. I doubt those people's minds would be blown away, but theyd probably find it rather sick to experience.

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