simh simulation speed

John A. Dundas III dundas at caltech.edu
Mon Sep 27 16:27:47 CDT 2004


At 12:23 PM -0700 9/27/04, Tom Jennings wrote:
>I haven't had a chance to get back and debug, but is it true that simh
>does NOT simulate the target machine's execution speed?

That is true.  No attempt is made at mimicking the original CPU speed.

However this does cause problems for some I/O devices.  In some 
cases, extra code has gone into working through situations in which 
an OS makes implicit assumptions about how quickly an I/O operation 
will complete.  Sometimes SIMH executes these too quickly and much 
fun ensues.

John




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