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SimOS

SimOS was a full system simulator, developed in the University of Stanford in the late nineties. It was enabled to run IRIX 5.3 on MIPS, and Unix variants (?) on Alpha. [1]

SimOS-PPC

SimOS-PPC was IBM's internal project, running a modified AIX kernel and userland in an emulator, developed by Tom Keller and his team in the Austin lab of IBM.[2] IBM used SimOS to facilitate development of new systems. The software used in this project is now publicly available for download for AIX 4.3 licensees.[3]

Linux/SimOS

Linux/SimOS was "...a Linux operating system port to SimOS, which is a complete machine simulator from Stanford. The motivation for Linux/SimOS is to alleviate the limitations of SimOS, which only supports proprietary operating systems."

See also

The currently available commercial product, Virtutech Simics was derived from the work of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, and was originally developed to run a full system simulation of Solaris on SPARC platform.[4] Simics was used by IBM to help develop AIX 6.1 on a simulation of the POWER6 hardware.[5]

Notes and references

  1. ^ SimOS project page at Stanford (now defunct)
  2. ^ SimOS–PPC - Full System Simulation of PowerPC Architecture (Tom Keller, 1999)
  3. ^ IBM Austin Research Laboratory - SimOS-PPC Software Archive
  4. ^ Simics
  5. ^ Virtutech Simics Optimizes Product Development of System P Server Product Line
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