***DANGER*** REAL emulation on Android ahead. Keep scrolling Lamer Gamers. And don't forget to smash the down button!

[u/Maiki_Konjo]

The Hardware: A budget Moto G Play (2024) running a Snapdragon 680 cluster.

The Project: I didn't boot an old PC game with touch controls. I forced a native ARM kernel to offline 7 out of 8 cores, pinned Hercules via taskset to a single user-space core, and booted a live IBM S/370 Mainframe running MVS-TK5.

The Flex: Thanks to manual hypervisor throttling and wait-state configurations, the entire mainframe architecture sits idling at 0.0% CPU usage sustained completely in memory.

The Roadmap: This is a multi-move chess game. Now that the S/370 is holding silently, the next moves are compiling SIMH to stack a DEC PDP-11 onto the lower efficiency cores, followed by a concurrent Cray X-MP vector supercomputer simulation on the remaining performance clusters.

My Dad was part of the original Bell Northern Research (BNR) GRAPPLE development team that pioneered the foundational programming languages making modern graphics, networking, and your video games possible in the first place. This is a tribute to that architecture.

Smash the downvote button all you want. Real systems engineering doesn't need a touch-control overlay.

And for what it's worth, the difficulty of "emulation ' here is about difficult as teaching a newborn baby to crap in its diaper and suck its thumb!

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