On: A history of APL in the USSR (1991)

[gregfjohnson]

IBM wrote APL\360 in 360 assembly language. The IBM 5100 personal computer had a small cpu. They wanted APL on the 5100, so they implemented a 360 emulator and ran the original implementation of APL on that.

[m463 → gregfjohnson]

I thought it was pretty cool when they had a pci(?) card you could add to a PC that could run VM/SP

[fredoralive → m463]

The later generation mainframe-in-a-PC cards were PCI, but they’d also done MCA and ISA ones, going back to the XT/370.

The XT/370 is particularly bonkers, as it uses a combo of a 68000 and an 8087 with custom microcode in them to run System 370 code.

[gattilorenz → gregfjohnson]

And that’s why John Titor came back :)