23 Oct
2005
23 Oct
'05
2:09 p.m.
Michael Sokolov declared on Sunday 23 October 2005 03:39 pm:
Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Indeed. If we didn't, why would most of us have hardware laying around,
when you can find an emulator for the hardware. (Not that you can find
an emulator for everything I've got though. :)
If PC-based emulators are fast enough, why bother
with the IC
version?
1. I don't want an emulator, I want The Real Thing (tm). 2. A pee sea based emulator requires a pee sea. I
refuse to
contaminate my house with a pee sea.
SimH is very portable and runs on very non-PeeCee hardware, including
just about any UNIX that has a non-ancient version of gcc available. It
may not be the fastest emu out there, but IMO it is the best one
available, overall. And yes, I too appreciate having source code
available to me to hack on if I need/want to.
Pat
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