FPGA VAX update

[Patrick Finnegan]

Michael Sokolov declared on Sunday 23 October 2005 03:39 pm:
> Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
> > If PC-based emulators are fast enough, why bother with the IC
> > version?
>
> 1. I don't want an emulator, I want The Real Thing (tm).

Indeed.  If we didn't, why would most of us have hardware laying around, 
when you can find an emulator for the hardware.  (Not that you can find 
an emulator for everything I've got though. :)

> 2. A pee sea based emulator requires a pee sea.  I refuse to
> contaminate my house with a pee sea.

SimH is very portable and runs on very non-PeeCee hardware, including 
just about any UNIX that has a non-ancient version of gcc available.  It 
may not be the fastest emu out there, but IMO it is the best one 
available, overall.  And yes, I too appreciate having source code 
available to me to hack on if I need/want to.

Pat
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