Developer(s) Robert M. Supnik | Initial release 1993 | |
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Stable release 3.9 / May 3, 2012; 4 years ago (2012-05-03) Operating system Platform x86, IA-64, PowerPC, SPARC, ARM Type Hardware virtualization | ||
SIMH is a highly portable, multi-system emulator which runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and OpenVMS. 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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History
SIMH was based on a much older systems emulator called MIMIC, which was written in the late 1960s at Applied Data Research. SIMH was started in 1993 with the purpose of preserving minicomputer hardware and software which was fading into obscurity.
Emulated Hardware
SIMH emulates hardware from the following companies.
Data General
Digital Equipment Corporation
GRI Corporation
Hobbyist Projects
IBM
Interdata
Hewlett-Packard
Honeywell
MITS
Royal-Mcbee
Scientific Data Systems
References
SIMH Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA