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   Before saying anything, I want to point out that there is no pretense   
   of expertise in this subject. I'm just a curious bean. As the growth   
   of retro computing matures, projects to resurrect the platforms by   
   building vice boxes gets more common. The C64-mini, the zx spectrum,   
   sega.. Otherwise, the 8-bit guy is taking off-the-shelf components to   
   build himself a modern juiced up Vic20 to sell at some point beyond   
   vaporware. They're creating the basic interpreter and kernal for their   
   system. All's well and good. This brought me to an interesting thought   
   with a similar notion. What stops anyone from doing the same thing   
   with a modern cpu and memory/bus system? Is it the complexity of the   
   modern cpu? In retro systems, the developer controlled memory    
   allocation such. I'd assume the difficult part would be to micromanage   
   every bit of memory management on a complex system. Am I on the right   
   track?   
      
   I only ask these questions just to get a better understanding of it   
   all. My daily laptop is a TRS-80 M200 laptop and, unlike any other   
   system in the house, it's instant-on. It's ready to dance a moment   
   after depressing the power button.   
      
   It would be utterly BOSS if a modern system could be created in the   
   same tact. Could someone enlighten me?   
      
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