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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>So what *<b>IS</b>* the future for SIMH ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Reading the last few posts, it appears that Bob Supnik is apparently
not, for whatever reason, able to release SIMH versions at the rate he used to
(prior to taking the job @ Unisys ?). Now we have a somewhat ad-hoc Sourceforge
repository, but there’s seemingly no roadmap going forward, just a bunch of
patches gleaned from posts to the SIMH mailing list.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>How do we plan to keep SIMH alive, well maintained, and vibrant
into the future ? At the moment, known bugs and lacking functionality generate
traffic on the mailing list. Who “owns” the content on the SIMH web site, and
who is responsible for keeping it up-to-date also ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Jason<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Jason Stevens<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 2 September 2010 6:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Rick Murphy<br>
<b>Cc:</b> simh@trailing-edge.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Simh] NetBSD5.0.2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I've been maintaining the sourceforge stuff... And I've been
collecting patches from people or posts, and putting them on the site, as
before that I've been providing builds for anyone outside of the linux/win32
environments.. (speaking of which work FINALLY got me some OSX access so I'll
be updating with some 10.6.3 binaries...!).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Send me what you have, and I'll
add it to the sourceforge page.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Rick Murphy <<a
href="mailto:simh@rickmurphy.net">simh@rickmurphy.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>At 06:14 AM 9/2/2010, Jason Stevens wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>The direct link is here:<br>
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<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><<a
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/simh/files/Unofficial%20Patches/3.8.1/simh_vax_cpu_idle.zip/download"
target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/simh/files/Unofficial%20Patches/3.8.1/simh_vax_cpu_idle.zip/download</a>><a
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/simh/files/Unofficial%20Patches/3.8.1/simh_vax_cpu_idle.zip/download"
target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/simh/files/Unofficial%20Patches/3.8.1/simh_vax_cpu_idle.zip/download</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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I've placed all that I can in the 'browse all files'....<o:p></o:p></p>
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I have a question - is there ever going to be another official SIMH release, or
is just going to be unofficial patches from here on?<br>
<br>
I supplied Bob a set of corrections for the PDP8/FPP8A simulation code back in
April of 2009, under the assumption that it'd show up in a 3.8-2 sometime but
there's been no new releases since then. There's also nothing on the SIMH
webpage pointing to the Source Forge project.<br>
<br>
I'm sorry if I missed the history (apparently my mail server was blocking mail
from this list due to some spam-blocking reason that I've now stopped, but
what's going on with SIMH? Do I submit my patches to the sourceforge project
now, and if so how do I do that?<br>
Thanks,<br>
<span style='color:#888888'> -Rick</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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