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License: gpl
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Package: GNU DLX Simulator
System name: gnudlx
This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
Description:
I want to create a simulator for the DLX processor. DLX is a RISC
type, load/store machine similar to SPARC or MIPS, \"created\" for
academic purposes by Patterson & Hennesy in the book \"Computer
Architecture. A quantitative approach\" first published in the early
90s, ant there\'re no commercial versions of the processor as far as I
know. (Maybe it could even be extended to run as a simulator for those
similar machines).
I want my simulator to \"understand\" the assembler dialect that they
used in the book and then execute the program, show statistics,
register status, pipeline and all that stuff. It would be optimal to
see all of these working in a graphical environment, such as GNOME.
There\'re other simulators like dlxsim created by the authors of the
book itself, and other freely (beer) available and even free software
with BSD licenses, but they are usually too bizarre or too old, I
couldn\'t test most of them.
There\'s an special one, WinDLX, for M$ Windows. Appart from being
proprietary, it\'s compiled for 3.11 (too old) and no longer supported
since 1991 more or less. But is quite cute and functional, I\'m
inspired on it. I could take screenshots to show them to you.
The project is still in a very early stage of development, barely
parses the assembler programs and has difficulties with some
directives. So there\'s no firm release, even no tarball publicy
available, but I could put somewhere if you consideer it\'s worth test
it (I think that is not, yet!).
Other Software Required:
I don\'t know :?
GNU LibC, maybe GNOME in the future.. but no special software such as
JavaVM.
Other Comments:
I want it to be GNU software, but I\'m not yet very familiar with all
of the implications, I\'ll need help, sure! :)
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