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 co

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 facili

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

2015-10-20 Thread Skybuck Flying
I see a bit of a risk here though. By teaching this to students they will be "pre-judged" and learning a certain way of thinking about computer micro architecture and might deprive/take away creative solutions/approaches from them to micro architecture design. But I guess it's better than no

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 fa

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 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 o

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

2015-10-20 Thread Skybuck Flying
aebe Sent: Monday, 19 October 2015 14:24 To: fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org Subject: [fpc-other] ESCAPE: Environment for the Simulation of Computer Architectures for the Purpose of Education Hi, In the 90s, a professor and a PhD student at our department developed a simulator for pip

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

2015-10-20 Thread Skybuck Flying
the Simulation of Computer Architectures for the Purpose of Education 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

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

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

2015-10-19 Thread Jonas Maebe
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 architecuture c