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   On Tuesday, April 21, 2020 at 4:15:02 AM UTC-4, Daniel wrote:   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > ... Visit me at: gopher://gcpp.world   
      
   No problem: just use sleep/suspend mode. That's equivalent to your T200, but   
   you'll need a bigger battery to maintain a suspended multi-core CPU and a   
   million times larger memory...   
      
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