3 Dec
2005
3 Dec
'05
5:11 a.m.
Allison wrote:
There are other CPUs like 8085, Z80 and relatives with
sims around for them.
Never minding 6800 and 6502s. So its a matter of taste.
The 6100 makes a nice basic PDP-8 but remember the 8 requires paper tape
for the basic system.
In all cases having a sim for the target machine will
make design work and
software more real and less dreaming.
I find it the other way around, sims seem less real than hardware
sitting on board even the design
is never finished. A magnetic tape drive and old I/O does seem to feel
like a massive computer
even if todays equivelant fits on a stick of chewing gum.
Allison
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