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Emulating the CM hardware does not make much sense. CM-1 and CM-2 are not real computers but essentially hardware accelerators as all the brains are inside the
by dfox 12y ago
Emulating the CM hardware does not make much sense. CM-1 and CM-2 are not real computers but essentially hardware accelerators as all the brains are inside the front-end system. CM-1 and CM-2 architecture can be described as very wide configurable ALU or as FPGA turned inside-out (the CM-1/2 "processor" is mostly same thing as one macrocell in FPGA, with the important difference that CM processor has different configuration for each clock cycle).
So emulating the hardware itself is not especially interesting as there is no real software for it (because it does not run standalone programs).
- rbanffy 12y agoWell... The front-end was usually a VAX, right? (as remembered from articles on the CM-1)