Re: Peter still in misery (was: Jan doesn't want Peter to know (was: Peter wants

Payne,

Comparing an Amdahl mainframe with a small software-only emulator is 
like comparing elephants and gerbils.  Even were this not so, you 
completely miss the obvious: just because you, personally, can't 
understand how something might be done doesn't mean that it cannot 
be done.  Just because you believe that there is no precedent for 
something like this having been done (and, to the contrary, there is 
a great deal of precedent in the body of prior, quite successful 
software-only emulators for other platforms, all written with 
nothing but public information) does not mean that there is none, in 
any case.

If you had been at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903, would you 
have been heckling Wilbur and Orville, regaling them with evidence 
of much precedent involving failed prior heavier-than-air flight 
attempts and assailing their science?  I can almost hear you 
hollering, "Hey!  You chaps over there!  What makes you think that 
two bicycle mechanics can overcome the laws of physics?"

Broido

--- In [email protected], "commanonce" <philp@i...> wrote:

<snip>
> I find this extremely hard to reconcile with the repeated
> assertion that Hercules is based entirely on information in the
> public domain.


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