[Nonfree-discuss] spim

[Niklas Vainio]

Here's an old mail I received that didn't make it into the non-free
replacements list. 

Conclusion: vmips is a complete replacement for spim. And, in the next
release also its documentation will be probably free.

----- Forwarded message from "Brian R. Gaeke" <gaeke@uiuc.edu> -----

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:35:46 -0600
From: "Brian R. Gaeke" <gaeke@uiuc.edu>
To: niklas.vainio@iki.fi
Subject: your page "Replacements for packages in Debian non-free"


Hi there,

On pingviini.net/nikke/debian/non-free.html, you note that vmips (as a
possible replacement for spim) has its documentation under FDL.  I wanted
to let you know that the next release of vmips will have its documentation
under a license similar to that of the traditional MIT X11 distribution.

You also note that it is "R3000 only"; the R3000 is an exactly equivalent
(from the software point of view) redesign of the R2000 with a more
efficient hardware implementation. I think the right way to think of
both SPIM and VMIPS is as "R2000/R3000" simulators.

Hope this helps!

-Brian Gaeke


----- End forwarded message -----

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