Gulu la otukula lomwe silinasangalale ndi kusintha kwa laisensi ya retrocomputer simulator SIMH idakhazikitsa projekiti ya Open SIMH, yomwe ipitiliza kupanga maziko a code simulator pansi pa layisensi ya MIT. Zosankha zokhudzana ndi chitukuko cha Open SIMH zidzapangidwa pamodzi ndi bungwe lolamulira, lomwe likuphatikizapo 6 otenga nawo mbali. Ndizofunikira kudziwa kuti Robert Supnik, mlembi woyambirira wa ntchitoyi komanso vicezidenti wakale wa DEC, amatchulidwa pakati pa omwe adayambitsa Open SIMH, kotero Open SIMH ikhoza kuonedwa ngati kope lalikulu la SIMH.
SIMH yakhala ikukula kuyambira 1993 ndipo imapereka nsanja yopangira zoyeserera zamakompyuta odziwika omwe amatengera machitidwe a machitidwe obwereketsa, kuphatikiza zolakwika zodziwika. Ma simulators amatha kugwiritsidwa ntchito pophunzira kuyambitsa ukadaulo wa retro kapena kuyendetsa mapulogalamu a zida zomwe kulibenso. Chodziwika bwino cha SIMH ndichosavuta kupanga zoyeserera zamakina atsopano popereka luso lomwe lapangidwa kale. Machitidwe othandizidwa amaphatikizapo mitundu yosiyanasiyana ya PDP, VAX, HP, IBM, Altair, GRI, Interdata, Honeywell. Ma simulators a BESM amaperekedwa kuchokera ku Soviet computing systems. Kuphatikiza pa ma simulators, polojekitiyi ikupanganso zida zosinthira zithunzi zamakina ndi mawonekedwe a data, kuchotsa mafayilo kuchokera kumatepi akale ndi machitidwe amafayilo olowa.
Kuyambira 2011, malo akuluakulu opangira ntchitoyi ndi malo osungiramo zinthu zakale a GitHub, omwe amasungidwa ndi Mark Pizzolato, yemwe adathandizira kwambiri pa chitukuko cha polojekitiyi. M'mwezi wa Meyi, poyankha kutsutsidwa kwa ntchito ya AUTOSIZE yomwe imawonjezera metadata ku zithunzi zamakina, Mark adasintha chilolezo cha polojekiti popanda kudziwa kwa ena opanga. M'mawu atsopano a laisensi, Mark adaletsa kugwiritsa ntchito ma code ake onse atsopano omwe angawonjezedwe kumafayilo a sim_disk.c ndi scp.c ngati khalidwe kapena zikhalidwe zosasinthika zokhudzana ndi machitidwe a AUTOSIZE asintha.
Chifukwa cha chikhalidwe ichi, phukusili linasinthidwa kukhala laulere. Mwachitsanzo, chilolezo chosinthidwa sichingalole kuti matembenuzidwe atsopano aperekedwe muzosungira za Debian ndi Fedora. Kusunga chikhalidwe chaufulu cha polojekitiyi, kuchititsa chitukuko m'zokonda za anthu ammudzi ndikusunthira kupanga zisankho pamodzi, gulu lokonzekera linapanga foloko ya Open SIMH, momwe malo osungiramo malo adasamutsira chikalatacho chisanasinthe.
Source: opennet.ru