[ES40-developers] Presentation

[Camiel V. <iam...@gm...>]

Hello everyone,

I'm going to give a presentation about the ES40 Emulator at HP's
OpenVMS bootcamp in May. I'm putting the material together, and I'm
hoping you may have a few ideas what to speak on. I've got an hour,
and the session will be at a basic level. So far, I'm thinking of
talking about the following:

* Emulation in general: when, why
* How to create an emulator (study the documentation, study the
hardware, filter out the logic, implement it in software, test and
analyze it, then re-iterate for fine-tuning)
* How the architecture of the ES40 was mapped into software-objects
* How we started with a "bare-bones" system until we got OpenVMS
running, then started adding things
* How the ES40 emulator is kept portable (portable libraries, new build system)
* Useful open-source resources
* Need for an active community, and how to build one
* SourceForge.net features

If you have any additional suggestions, or suggestions for one of
these points, please let me know. I will certainly make my
presentation public after the bootcamp.

Thanks!

Camiel.