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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>retrocomputing</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../R.html" title="R"/><link rel="previous" href="RETI.html" title="RETI"/><link rel="next" href="return-from-the-dead.html" title="return from the dead"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">retrocomputing</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RETI.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">R</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="return-from-the-dead.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="retrocomputing"/><dt xmlns="" id="retrocomputing"><b>retrocomputing</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/ret'·roh·k@m·pyoo´ting/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or
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software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; esp. if such
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implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written
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mostly for <a href="../H/hack-value.html"><i class="glossterm">hack value</i></a>, of more ‘serious’
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designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was
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the
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">pnch</span>(6)</span>
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or
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">bcd</span>(6)</span>
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program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80
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characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in
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<a href="../P/punched-card.html"><i class="glossterm">punched card</i></a> code. Other well-known retrocomputing
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hacks have included the programming language
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<a href="../I/INTERCAL.html"><i class="glossterm">INTERCAL</i></a>, a <a href="../J/JCL.html"><i class="glossterm">JCL</i></a>-emulating
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shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various
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elaborate <a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a> hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to
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keep an old, sourceless <a href="../Z/Zork.html"><i class="glossterm">Zork</i></a> binary running.</p><p>A tasty selection of retrocomputing programs are made available at
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the Retrocomputing Museum, <a href="http://www.catb.org/retro/" target="_top">http://www.catb.org/retro/</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RETI.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="return-from-the-dead.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">RETI </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> return from the dead</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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