[Simh] Hardware Requirements

[J. David Bryan]

On Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at 0:20, Pontus wrote:

> I just joined the list, this is my first post :)

Welcome.


> 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?

I have not used the PDP-15 simulator, but I have made timing measurements 
on the HP 1000 simulator.  On a 2.1 GHz Core 2 Duo machine, the simulator 
executes about 47000 instructions per millisecond.  A real HP 1000 E-Series 
executed about 1580 instructions per millisecond, so SIMH is about 30 times 
faster.

I would think that the PDP-15 simulator would be of the same order of 
magnitude on similar hardware.

                                      -- Dave