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Re:What Did Ada Lovelace's Program Actually Do? (2018) by glouwbug on Monday December 16, 2024 @02:24PM (#42434376)
Has anyone built a virtual machine out of Babbage's instruction set and then tried Ada's program?
Re:What Did Ada Lovelace's Program Actually Do? (2018) by cchianel on Monday December 16, 2024 @02:55PM (#42434702)
John Walker built a virtual machine for the Babbage's instruction set, and it has a web emulator: https://fourmilab.ch/babbage/emulator.html.

I don't think Ada program is available as an example though, so you'll need to input it manually.

Fun fact: my compiler course project was creating a C compiler targeting the emulator https://github.com/Christopher-Chianelli/ccpa (warning, said code is terrible).

Re:What Did Ada Lovelace's Program Actually Do? (2018) by alanjay on Monday December 16, 2024 @04:46PM (#42435807)
Not quite, but this emulates her program.

https://github.com/MarquisdeGeek/Ada-Origins

Re:What Did Ada Lovelace's Program Actually Do? (2018) by gregalt on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @12:40PM (#42452807)
Here's a blog series where I get her program running on a modern computer using a simple transliteration to C: https://pairdebuggingwithlovelace.hashnode.dev/