[Simh] M-20 simulator implemented

[Howard M. Harte]

Very nice.  It will be fun to try it out.

It looks like the main SIMH distribution (v3.8-1) has not been updated  
since February.

I'm curious to know when the next release is planned, as I know at  
least one bug in the PDP-11 network controller has been found and fixed.

Also, in the spring, I added a MIT TX-0 simulator tested on Linux and  
Windows, and submitted the code to Bob Supnik for inclusion into the  
distribution.  I'd like to know if that has been accepted into the  
distribution for future releases.

It is very educational to write a simulator for new old hardware, and  
to be able to run code which has not been executed for decades.

I'd like to thank Al Kossow of bitsavers.org for making the TX-0  
documentation and software available.

-Howard

On Sep 21, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Serge Vakulenko <serge at vak.ru> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thank you for your great computer simulator project SIMH.
> It is really a lot of pleasure to play with vintage systems using  
> SIMH. :)
>
> I hope you will be interested in old Soviet computers. For example,
> M-20: a vacuum tube computer, manufactured in 1958-1965. A first chess
> program "Kaissa" was implemented on M-20:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaissa
>
> I implemented M-20 using SIMH. Sources are available via SVN or
> browsed here: http://code.google.com/p/m20/source/browse/#svn/trunk/simh
>
> Several weeks ago, the sorces of Kaissa were found:
> http://m20.googlecode.com/svn/doc/M-20-Kaissa.pdf
> Some days, I hope to make it run on SIMH.
>
> What do you think about merging M-20 sources into the main SIMH source
> tree? There are a lot of comments in Russian, UTF-8 encoding - would
> they cause a problem?
>
> In a near future, I plan to start implementing a BESM-6, the most
> famous Soviet computer of 60-s.
> ___
> Regards,
> Serge Vakulenko
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