Re: [fpc-other] ESCAPE: Environment for the Simulation of Computer Architectures for the Purpose of Education

2016-02-01 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Jonas Maebe wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote on Mon, 01 Feb 2016: For a demo computer built using this sort of thing, it's obviously trivial to arrange it such that the simulator can load microcode from persistent storage, and can do something comparable for a boot loader. What would be the

Re: [fpc-other] ESCAPE: Environment for the Simulation of Computer Architectures for the Purpose of Education

2016-02-01 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Jonas Maebe wrote: Hi, In the 90s, a professor and a PhD student at our department developed a simulator for pipelined and microprogrammed architectures (based on the Hennessy and Patterson DLX architecture), in Delphi. We've used it since then every year in the lab sessions for our computer

Re: [fpc-other] ESCAPE: Environment for the Simulation of Computer Architectures for the Purpose of Education

2016-02-01 Thread Jonas Maebe
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote on Mon, 01 Feb 2016: For a demo computer built using this sort of thing, it's obviously trivial to arrange it such that the simulator can load microcode from persistent storage, and can do something comparable for a boot loader. What would be the comparable