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

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

2015-10-20 Thread Skybuck Flying
Looks interesting. Does this still compile under Delphi ? I guess I could try it out myself, but a bit busy now... Bye, Skybuck. -Original Message- From: Jonas Maebe Sent: Monday, 19 October 2015 14:24 To: fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org Subject: [fpc-other] ESCAPE: Environment for

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

2015-10-20 Thread Jonas Maebe
Skybuck Flying wrote: Running into a few issues with Delphi, would be nice if you could fix it up a bit so that it runs under Delphi ? I don't have Delphi. I've never even used Delphi. You can get the original Delphi version (including some bugs that were fixed later on) by checking out one

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

2015-10-20 Thread Skybuck Flying
-Original Message- From: Jonas Maebe Sent: Tuesday, 20 October 2015 10:45 To: Other FPC related discussions. Subject: Re: [fpc-other] ESCAPE: Environment for the Simulation of Computer Architectures for the Purpose of Education Skybuck Flying wrote: Running into a few issues with

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

2015-10-20 Thread Skybuck Flying
Ok, I tried and compiled the Delphi version. Only issue Delphi XE7 ran into was DirectorySeparator. TPath.DirectorySeparator did not seem to work. So I replaced it lazy with '\' for now to see if it would compile. It does compile and run. However there is some problem with the examples as

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

2015-10-19 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