[Simh] Hardware Requirements

[Pontus]

2010-12-07 05:02, Zane H. Healy skrev:
> At 7:55 PM -0700 12/6/10, Bruce Claremont wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Considering you need about 200Mhz for PDP-10 emulation, I think any 
> Atom processor would be more than fast enough.  I've been looking into 
> putting together an Atom-based system for this, and I am planning on a 
> Dual-Core.
>
> I used to have a dedicated box for PDP-10 emulation, it was built 
> using a Celeron 500Mhz CPU.

An Atom is certainly an option, they are definitely in the price range 
I'm considering.

Has anyone have any experience of running on an ARM cpu? I'm asking 
since I'll need some I/O pins to connect with the real console I have 
and there are some nice ARM based development boards out there with lots 
of I/O.

  - Pontus