[Simh] Various

[Bob Eager]

Also not survived...

We had an NCR Elliott 4130, but when the CS degree started, the
students (four in the initial year) had a PDP-11 for various things.
One of the staff wrote an assembler AND a simulator to run on the 4130,
to reduce the need fro the real machine. It obviously helped with
debugging too.

On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 09:10:41 -0500
Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:

> > On Feb 14, 2020, at 3:03 AM, Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Paul Koning wrote:  
> >> It was pretty weird in that it ran a PDP-11 simulator (on the
> >> PDP-11) so students could write something approximating bare-metal
> >> software but get some debugging help if things go wrong.
> >> 
> >> They moved that course to CDC, and I helped write the analogous
> >> thing for our Cyber (a Cyber emulator on Cyber).  
> > 
> > Those sound marvellous.  I don't suppose either of them has
> > survived?  
> 
> No, unfortunately not.
> 
> 	paul
> 
> 
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