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From: tim@amdcad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Word vs. Byte Orientation
Message-ID: <16126@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: Mon, 13-Apr-87 19:49:57 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 13 19:49:57 1987
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In article <16122@amdcad.AMD.COM>, bcase@amdcad.AMD.COM (Brian Case) writes:
> In article <279@winchester.mips.UUCP> mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) writes:
> 
> >Thus, we have really precise statistics on what's going on, at least on
> >our machines, at the user-level, for anything form typical UNIX programs
> >(like nroff), to large simulators [spice, espresso],
> >parts of the compiler system [assembler, optimizer, debugger],
> >to benchmarks like whetstone, dhrystone, linpack.
> 
> Sigh, I wish we could do such simulations.

I think Brian misread the previous paragraph to mean that the MIPS simulator
is able to run these programs in a simulated UNIX environment (i.e.
simulating the entire UNIX kernel), but I see only user-level mentioned, above.
Note that we *are* able to perform such simulations, but only in a single-
tasking, stand-alone environment.

John -- does the MIPS simulator incorporate a simulated UNIX kernel, and have
you performed multiprogramming simulations with it?

	-- Tim Olson
	Advanced Micro Devices
	(tim@amdcad.AMD.COM)