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From: djohnson@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: any HW simulators?
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Date: 21 Oct 89 06:29:35 GMT
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I am planning on writing a simple computer architecture simulator, possibly
in Smalltalk, as part of a class project.  Has anyone done something
like this, or have the basic framework?  The simulator should be at more of
a 'macro' level, split into memory, pipelines, processors, etc.  These parts
should be able to be broken down further to simulate different configurations
(ie, different cache models, etc.).

Also (since I may do this in Objective-C for speed), does anyone know how
to do processes, semaphores, and other concurrency related operations in
Objective-C?

Darin Johnson
djohnson@ucsd.edu