14 Aug
2012
14 Aug
'12
6:24 p.m.
> Personally, if I were in charge of keeping it
running, I'd rather
> have the simulator. Not because it's easier to repair the hardware
> [...], but because the exact hardware is irrelevant: I'm reasonably
> confident I can, if necessary, build a new simulator on whatever the
> beagleboard/pi/etc du jour is.
Hmm... My issue would be wit hthe interface to the
'panel'.
If you were doign this 10 years ago, most likely the
simulator would
run on a PC, and you'd interface the panel to the parallel port.
That's what I'd do today.
Today, msot likely you'd interface that panel to
USB.
Maybe most people would. I wouldn't.
I suspect that the changes necessary (both hardware
and software) to
move from 'bit banged on a parelel port; to 'USB' are considerable.
If the simulator is properly designed, it's just a matter of ripping
off one glue layer and dropping in another.
If the simulator isn't properly designed in that respect, it soon would
be after I got hold of it. :)
I suspect hat keeping the rela machine running is a
lot easier.
For you, it probably would be. Hence my "Personally".
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