SIMH on low overhead platform

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 at 09:43, Tom Hunter via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> Has SIMH been ported to a low overhead (instant-on) platform?
>
> I ask the question because the startup time of Linux is distracting when
> powering on a PiDP-11/70 or similar clone systems based on SIMH.

Not that I know of.

I have been looking thoughtfully at Ultibo:
https://ultibo.org/

It is a bare-metal FreePascal development environment for the RasPi 1 to 3B.

I have not actually tried to build anything yet and my Pascal skills
are 30y rusty now (and they were never that great anyway, but they're
better than my C skills ever were).

I believe it is possible to get Ultibo to load and execute a
monolithic ARM binary, so long as it meets some requirements. I was
pondering trying to built a statically-linked executable of Aranym:

https://aranym.github.io/

Aranym already runs on the RasPi using Rasbian:
https://sites.google.com/site/beebox68k/news/beepi10

But by the same token it ought  to be possible to do this with SimH or
anything else...


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