SIMH

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SIMH
Developer(s) Robert M. Supnik
Stable release 3.8-1 / February 8, 2009; 2 years ago (2009-02-08)
Operating system Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OpenVMS and others
Platform x86, x86-64, IA-64, PowerPC, SPARC, ARM
Type OS-level virtualization, Free virtualization software, Linux emulation software, Mac OS X emulation software, Windows emulation software
License MIT (modified)
Website http://simh.trailing-edge.com

SIMH is a highly portable, multi-system emulator which runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OpenVMS, and other operating systems. It is maintained by Bob Supnik, a former DEC engineer and DEC vice president, and has been in development in one form or another since the 1960s.

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[edit] History

SIMH was based on a much older systems emulator called MIMIC, which was written in the late 1960s at Applied Data Research.[1] SIMH was started in 1993 with the purpose of preserving minicomputer hardware and software which was fading into obscurity.[1]

[edit] Emulated Hardware

SIMH emulates hardware from the following companies.

[edit] Data General

[edit] Digital Equipment Corporation

[edit] GRI Corporation

[edit] IBM

[edit] Interdata

[edit] Hewlett-Packard

[edit] Honeywell

[edit] MITS

[edit] Royal-Mcbee

[edit] Scientific Data Systems

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Preserving Computing's Past: Restoration and Simulation" Max Burnet and Bob Supnik, Digital Technical Journal, Volume 8, Number 3, 1996.

[edit] External links

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