The oldest emulated architecture?

[dsrtao]

The Z-Machine is the notional hardware that runs Zork and all the other Infocom text adventures, as well as thousands of interactive fiction games written since that time. There's never been a commercial hardware implementation, that I know of. (Some student projects, I think.)

There's a project to write a Z-Machine emulator for Android; there's already such an emulator for iPhone and PalmOS. ( http://code.google.com/p/twisty )

Is this the oldest architecture that still has people writing and running emulators?

Comments

Definitely not

[metageek.livejournal.com]

SIMH emulates a whole bunch of early machines. The oldest I recognize is the Royal McBee LGP-21 (as in the Story of Mel); the oldest I've run myself is the PDP-1.

Re: Definitely not

[metageek.livejournal.com]

Clarification: "run myself"—as in, I've fired up the emulator, meeting your "and running" clause. I've never seen a PDP-1.