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wove
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on: December 12, 2021, 02:27
My day to day machine runs Fedora SilverBlue on a very modern machine. I rather enjoy looking at different OSes both old and new and run them in virtual machines. I thought I had downloaded SheepShaver for Linux, but actually I had download SheepShaver for Windows. Since I had a VM that run Windows, I figured I would try and emulator on an emulated OS. SheepShaver installed fine on a Windows VM and 9.0.4 installed fine in SheepShaver. And it seemed to run fine as well. If someone asks what you can do on modern hardware that you can not do on older hardware you can say that you can run virtual machines recursively. Now that is a heck of a waste of computing resources. The interesting thing is the modern machine, an AIO with a nice HD screen uses 40watts total in operation. So you could say that the modern hardware even doing recursive emulation uses less than half the power consumed by the machine it is emulating. |
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #1 on: December 16, 2021, 04:04
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He he, nice Matryoshka setup you got yourself into. ;-) And while I concur that such a "emulate an emulator within a virtual machine" approach would be painful if not impossible to orchestrate on vintage HW, I have to dispute your assertion that modern day platforms are "power savers" in any way. Back in the day we used to switch our systems off at night and sometimes even during the daytime (outrage!) And before the advert of HD based machines, we could do that by simply pushing the power button (unbelievable). No lengthy shutdown procedure and no saving of files, as there was only one app running from that floppy disk anyway.  Jump back to present day reality and you'll find dozens of devices in every living room running 24/7/365 - whether they are actually being used or not. You may add to that cell phones, remote control gadgets and the [in]famuos "Internet of Things" distributed throughout the neighborhood. The Bitcoin miners all by themselves use up enough electricity each day to power a city of close to 20k inhabitants. Not to mention the countless Crypto Currency exchanges in operation, which eat as much electric juice on top of that as all of Iceland is consuming. With slower CPUs bitcoin mining would still be limited to a few academic exercises, instead of having evolved into a sport for the masses. Let's return back to them pleasant days, when brewing a good cup of coffee took its time, just like printing a presentation or kissing the woman that you love.
Last Edit: December 16, 2021, 11:33 by 68040
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