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Martin Haeberli said...

Dumb idea # 6 (From Martin Haeberli, who wrote the microcode for the Alto Butte runtime ("A Butte is a small Mesa" - C.Simonyi) based on the Alto Mesa microcode...

Larry Stewart in Cambridge, MA, also has a bunch of Alto disk images - I wonder if you can a) make a tool that takes an image and an Alto disk and writes the image _to_ the Alto disk - I wouldn't do that to anything but say an already randomized disk. b) make a tool that virtualizes an Alto disk - take an image, put it in a memory (maybe a flash memory)?, and feed it to / from the Alto disk controller ...

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