Re: Porting TADS


13 Oct 1995 17:15:49 GMT

In article <45k4pn$atc@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>,
Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

>Seems like there is an opportunity here for some enterprising
>enthusiast to reverse-engineer the TADS runtime format and
>create a freely-available interpreter.
>
>Shouldn't be any harder than it was with the Z-machine...

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.

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.

Dave Baggett
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