Talk:SIMH

SIMH flavors

I think it is time to distinguish between the three flavors of SIMH, although they have a lot in common, but the differences grow steadily.

My proposal is a generic SIMH page which might have the following section after the introduction:

== SIMH Flavors ==

For some time passed there are three flavors of SIMH now:

* [[Classic" SIMH]] ([http://simh.trailing-edge.com/ http://simh.trailing-edge.com/])
* [["New" SIMH]] ([https://github.com/simh/simh https://github.com/simh/simh]) 
* [["OpenSIMH"]] ([https://opensimh.org/ https://opensimh.org/]) 
It is relatively hard for a beginner to decide which way to go. I will not give any specific advice, but some short descriptions:

'''"Classic" SIMH''' is the oldest one, whereof the others were forked later on. It is Bob Supnik work mostly, except for some HP simulators. Development apparently stopped (or at least slowed down) in December 2022. The current version is SIMH V3.12-3.

'''"New" SIMH''' was the first bigger fork and added a lot more simulated computer systems.

'''"OpenSIMH"''' forked from "New" SIMH because of insurmountable different opinions of both maintainers and contributors.

The generic SIMH page should concentrate on the commonalities; the differences should be explained in the three specific pages linked in the gereric page.

What do my fellow writers think? Vaxorcist (talk) 18:12, 2 April 2023 (CEST)

Sounds good to me. Jnc (talk) 19:14, 2 April 2023 (CEST)