10 Mar
2005
10 Mar
'05
4:45 p.m.
>>>> "Tom" == Tom Jennings
<tomj at wps.com> writes:
Tom> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Ron Hudson wrote:
> I am beginning to write a simulator for a
"microcomputer", it will
> feature a curses (terminal) front panel. it will be a 12 bit
> machine. You will be able to issue commands to the simulator
> without stopping the program (for mounting virtual paper tapes,
> printing to files etc)
Tom> Cool! If you haven't, check out Donald Knuth's fictional MIX
Tom> computer. It's a mishmash of a bunch of "contemporary" (1970s)
Tom> architectures. The cool thing about is there is SOFTWARE written
Tom> for it, even though it never physically existed.
It's even a supported target in the GCC compiler.
paul