[Simh] Hardware Requirements

[Bruce Claremont]

For a PDP-11 emulation, something as simple as an Atom processor would do the job.  I would recommend a dual-core processor simply to provide better overall performance.

Bruce C.

At 04:20 PM 12/6/2010, Pontus wrote:
>Hi
>
>I just joined the list, this is my first post :)
>
>I was wondering, what are the hardware requirements of simh? What kind of CPU would be necessary to emulate a PDP-15 at or over its real world speed?
>
>The reason I'm asking is that I want to build a small system to interface with PDP-15 panel. I'm looking at the beagleboard, but wouldn't mind something simpler and/or cheaper.
>
>Kind Regards,
>Pontus.
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