[Info-vax] Is SIMH on a Mac a viable option ?

[Bob Eager]

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:23:32 +0200, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote:

> En/na Bob Koehler ha escrit:
> 
>>> How viable is SIMH on a 64 bit Intel Mac running OS-X ? Is this a
>>> large project to setup and get working reliably ?
>> 
>>    The first time I tried to get SIMH running on a Mac under OS X, I
>>    just changed all the #ifdef linux (sp?) to #if defined(linux) ||
>>    defined(OSX) (sp?).  That was about 5 uears ago and I understand
>>    later versions of SIMH were harder to port.
> 
> Nowadays it builds "out of the box" on the mac. And if you use macports
> it takes care of downloading, patching and moving the things where
> corresponds ;) (it renames the executables to simh-xxxx).
> 
> BYW, I haven't upgraded SIMH for a time and I have the vague memory of
> having read that it does not include the CPU firmware files anymore. I
> don't think it would be difficult to find them tough.

THere was a little discussion a short while ago. Someone installed a 
package (linux RPM perhaps) that had omitted the VAX-11/780 VMB file. But 
I installed the same thing on FreeBSD as a package, and the files were 
all present (stashed in some public directory). So I think that's a red 
herring.




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