Re: Porting TADS


17 Oct 1995 04:41:02 GMT

In article <45m6s5$r3v@life.ai.mit.edu>, dmb@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) writes:
|> In article <45k4pn$atc@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>,
|> Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
|>
|> Would you say the same thing about emulating a 6502 versus emulating a Lisp
|> Machine CPU? The fact that both are virtual machines doesn't mean that
|> they're similar virtual machines.

I wouldn't be surprised if a Lisp machine actually had
a simpler and cleaner architecture than a 6502...

|> You could certainly make a TADS run-time from scratch, but my guess is this
|> would be significanlty more difficult than reverse-engineering the Z
|> Machine.

Maybe, maybe not. The only way to find out is to try it.
Anyone care to take up the challenge?

|> Dave Baggett
|> dmb@ai.mit.edu ADVENTIONS: Kuul text adventures! Email for a catalog.

Greg