[fpc-other] ESCAPE: Environment for the Simulation of Computer Architectures for the Purpose of Education

[Jonas Maebe]

Hi,

In the 90s, a professor and a PhD student at our department developed  
a simulator for pipelined and microprogrammed architectures (based on  
the Hennessy and Patterson DLX architecture), in Delphi. We've used it  
since then every year in the lab sessions for our computer  
architecuture classes. In 2010, I ported the program to FPC and  
Lazarus and we use it compiled for Linux/Qt in a VM nowadays. I did  
not have any Lazarus experience when I started that port (and I'm  
still far from an expert), but the process still went fairly smooth.

I recently asked for and got permission to publish the source code  
under the GPLv3, so here it is: https://github.com/jmaebe/ESCAPE


Jonas