I don't know if this comment represents scope creep or not, but I recently browsed the VAX MP Technical Overview:
http://www.oboguev.net/vax_mp/VAX%20MP%20Technical%20Overview.pdf and it has an eye-opening dissection of the pitfalls associated with threaded emulation when the memory consistency model of the emulated hardware is not the same as the host hardware. It's easy to spout off from the back seat :-) but it seems like we collectively would want to give serious thought to any general simh API that might wander into this territory so it is possible to guarantee correctness (while hopefully not punishing performance any more than is necessary). Regards, Scott _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
