Rob,
I developed the CDC1700 emulator entirely on an old iMac (2008). El Capitan
(10.11) will require an early 2009 Mac Mini or newer. If you want to run the
latest version (and the next one one due in the fall) you will need a 2010 or
later model. OS upgrades are a free download from apple.com. The development
environment (xCode) is also a free download and includes an IDE along with a
set of command line tools.
I’ll be happy to answer any other questions you have.
John.
> On Jul 9, 2017, at 5:52 AM, Rob Jarratt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am working on an emulator. I would like this emulator to work on a MacBook
> because that is the machine used by one of the original designers of the
> machine I am emulating. I don’t have any Mac hardware (other than an old Mac
> Classic and a IIci). I know very little about Mac hardware and about Mac OS
> X. I would like to get a really basic machine that is enough just to be able
> to build SIMH and verify operation of the emulator, I don’t want to buy an
> expensive machine because I would only use it for this one purpose.
>
> I came across some eBay listings for some affordable Mac Minis running Mac OS
> X 10.7.2 Lion. The MacBook I would like to target runs OS X El Capitan
> 10.11.6. My question is simply, would one of these Mac Mini machines allow me
> to validate the makefile, possibly even to create binaries?
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob
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