Abstract
Transferring software to a new host environment is one of the major problems facing installations wishing to upgrade their computer systems. This study investigates the effectiveness of simulation of an old host environment on a new host machine as a partial solution to the software transferability problem. A simulated environment of a Singer System Ten minicomputer was developed to run on an Alpha Micro microcomputer. The results of the project demonstrate that a simulated environment can be effectively used as an aid in transferring computer operations to a new host machine. It was also found that this technique is particularly suitable when software on the host machine is so dependent on features of the hardware that automated software translation is not feasible. The current generation of microcomputers is shown to be more than adequate to support the simulated environment of a minicomputer-based system.
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