Re: [ES40-developers] Presentation

[Brian W. <bdw...@in...>]

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 16:01 +0100, Camiel Vanderhoeven wrote:
> 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.
> 

Sounds really cool.

You may mention how much brain-bleach is needed to filter through all of
the 'legacy' devices' behavior!

Brian

> Thanks!
> 
> Camiel.
> 
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