Cray X-MP Simulator Resurrects Piece of Computer History

An anonymous reader writes "If you have a fascination with old supercomputers, like I do, this project might tickle your interest: A functional simulation of a Cray X-MP supercomputer, which can boot to its old batch operating system, called COS. It's complete with hard drive and tape simulation (no punch card readers, sorry) and consoles. Source code and binaries are available. You can also read about the journey that got me there, like recovering the OS image from a 30 year old hard drive or reverse-engineering CRAY machine code to understand undocumented tape drive operation and disk file-systems."

Anonymous?

[Jmc23]

If you want to be anonymous, linking to your blog with your full name probably isn't the way to go!

can I run it on my cellphone?

[peter303]

and would it be faster than the original?

Sweet!

[Nidi62]

Now I can sequence that old dinosaur DNA I got from this chunk of amber sitting in my closet!