mulix
Fri, 03 Aug 2001 05:31:43 -0700
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote: > I have a proposal for the next project the Haifux' programming club may > wish to take after r2l and I'd like to present it here. i seem to recall guy having a pretty neat project proposal. guy, care to post it and explain what it's about? > The internals and behaviours of the MAYBE and the G-Machine are described > in the book, which is still in print and available in "Sifriyath Hadikan". > > My question is: do you think it will be a valuable project to write these > simulators so they would be able to run on Linux, but would also have a > back-end that is portable enough to run on any other 32-bit and 64-bit > system? This project has the advantage that those who take it will become > familiar with the internals of a full-fledged computer, which would be a > good experience in digital electronics. i'm not sure how worthy a project it would be, if you consider the following points: * how much hack value does this project have? or to put it another way, how much fun will we have doing it? * will it be usefull to anyone, excepts students taking this class? since i haven't read the book (though i probably will, based on your recommendation), i have no idea what is the scope of the work required, which is another issue to consider. -- mulix http://www.advogato.com/person/mulix linux/reboot.h: #define LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 0xfee1dead