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by the group Open SIMH, with a new governance model and steering group that includes Supnik and others. The Open SIMH group cited that a "situation" had arisen in the project that compromised its principles.
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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
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The V4 GitHub repository has been placed under a modified license that effectively makes it closed source. It will no longer be referenced here.
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engineer and DEC vice president, and has been in development in one form or another since the 1960s.
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On 3 June 2022, the last revision of SIMH not subject to this clause (licensed under
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Max Burnet and Bob Supnik, Digital Technical Journal, Volume 8, Number 3, 1996.
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UNIX: Old School. Using SIMH to explore UNIX history - Matthew Hoskins
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was unilaterally modified by a contributor to make it
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hardware and software that was fading into obscurity.
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SIMH emulates hardware from the following companies.
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