Re:IRS’ 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day Due to New H...
by dfox on Monday April 30, 2018 @08:03PM
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As for the solaris it is probably only UNIX where ignoring the ISO C rule that anything ending with "_t" is reserved for implementation will bite you hard as solaris' libc headers are probably the main reason for that and typedef stuff like lock_t.
As for the rest doing cycle exact emulation of 50 year old system is and probably always will be doable and from some PoV trivial: you can just simulate the hardware logic of the original implementation on RTL or even gate level and it still will be faster than realtime.
[Edit: "reserved for implementation" was missing from the first paragraph]
As for the rest doing cycle exact emulation of 50 year old system is and probably always will be doable and from some PoV trivial: you can just simulate the hardware logic of the original implementation on RTL or even gate level and it still will be faster than realtime.
[Edit: "reserved for implementation" was missing from the first paragraph]