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The installation of Charon-HPA on a general purpose host platform provides an exact model of a working HP3000 or HP9000 system. On this 'virtual' system you install your HP3000 or HP9000 operating system and the associated applications, just as though you were using the original hardware. In most cases, no changes of the software are required. The Charon-HPA emulated systems run
the same binary HP3000 and HP9000 code and the same I/O drivers as the original hardware. This is illustrated in the following image:
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