I don't get it though. We've had the SimhH simulator for about 25 years now, just putting it on a Raspberry Pi is trivial, so the only "story" here is the front panel. Ie, copy source code onto the RPi, run make, and you're done, because the Raspberry Pi is a relatively high powered computer. You can find PDP 11 like computers built by hand - that is, the logic built by hand from TTL gates or relays, those are certainly much more interesting stories. Follow the homebrew cpu ring [homebrewcpuring.org].
Granted, this is fun to play with, I've had fun bootstrapping onto SimH from 1977 tape images. But is this really a slashdot story?
Pi does it all (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm always amazed at what people use a Pi for. While bad mouthed for it's limitations it seems the Swiss Knife of tiny SBC devices.
Re:Pi does it all (Score:2)
I don't get it though. We've had the SimhH simulator for about 25 years now, just putting it on a Raspberry Pi is trivial, so the only "story" here is the front panel. Ie, copy source code onto the RPi, run make, and you're done, because the Raspberry Pi is a relatively high powered computer. You can find PDP 11 like computers built by hand - that is, the logic built by hand from TTL gates or relays, those are certainly much more interesting stories. Follow the homebrew cpu ring [homebrewcpuring.org].
Granted, this is fun to play with, I've had fun bootstrapping onto SimH from 1977 tape images. But is this really a slashdot story?
Re: (Score:2)
Whether it's more interesting depends on your area of interest.
Re: Pi does it all (Score:0)
This. It always irks me when the pi float by /. And it's just and years-old emulator copypasta'd