On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Richard <[email protected]> wrote: > > In article <[email protected]>, > Michael Kerpan <[email protected]> writes: > >> emulation code could write to and that could be viewed by an external >> client. > > I guess I'm confused why an external client is necessary. > > It seems like it would be simpler to provide a local client. > > When I first saw this thread I thought it was going to be discussing a > graphical front panel for the machine, augmented with a view of the > machine architecture (register contents, single step, etc.). Now I > realize this is something different, but I think that would be nice to > have. You really can understand a CPU architecture better when you > can single step execution and watch the register contents change.
I think a debugger would be good too, but I think that something that increases the pool of software that can run is more useful. A to why the graphics would be done through RFB rather than through direct display, that's just to keep things cross-platform by off-loading the platform-specific work of displaying graphics to external programs rather than having code display routines for every platform SIMH runs on into the codebase. Mike _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
