[Simh] SimH on Raspberry Pi - out of date?

[Kevin Monceaux]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 01:17:55PM -0000, Paul Hardy 2 wrote:

> I've been running some VAX emulations on PC and on Raspberry Pi, and I note
> that the version of SimH that you get with Rapbian is a rather elderly
> 3.8-1. What are the plans to get 4.0 be something other than Beta, which is
> presumably a prerequisite for it being pulled as a supported package on
> Raspbian?

With Raspbian being based on Debian it's not likely you'll find the latest
versions of anything in Raspbian's repos.  Debian errs on the side of
stability and takes its time with getting the latest versions of packages
into its "stable" branch.  I'm not familiar with Raspbian.  I only have one
Raspberry Pi and I'm running Arch Linux on it.  With regular Debian there is
a "testing" branch that one can switch to to get more up to date software.
Even in Debian's testing branch the latest version of SIMH available is
3.8.1-5.




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