Pi-Mainframe VS gcc-darwin-arm64

Compare Pi-Mainframe vs gcc-darwin-arm64 and see what are their differences.

Pi-Mainframe

Simulated mainframe computer based on a Raspberry Pi (by BrentSeidel)

gcc-darwin-arm64

GCC master branch for Darwin with experimental support for Arm64. Currently GCC-14.0.1 [April 2024] (by iains)
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Pi-Mainframe gcc-darwin-arm64
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Pi-Mainframe

Posts with mentions or reviews of Pi-Mainframe. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-28.
  • March 2022 What Are You Working On?
    14 projects | /r/ada | 28 Feb 2022
    I split the CPU simulations out of my Raspberry Pi Simulated Mainframe to provide more flexibility in their use. The CPU simulations are now in Sim CPU. In addition to the simple simulator that just blinks the lights in interesting ways, I have an 8080 simulator (and some simulated devices) more or less working. I am hoping to actually be able to boot CP/M on it before too long.
  • February 2022 What Are You Working On?
    9 projects | /r/ada | 2 Feb 2022
    I've split "simulators" out of my Raspberry PI Mainframe Simulator. In addition, since I have an "Intel 8080/8085 Assembly Language Programming" book (from Radio Shack, remember them?) laying around, I've started writing an 8080 simulator. I've got over half the instructions implemented and tested. My goal is to be able to get CP/M running on it.
  • December 2021 What Are You Working On?
    14 projects | /r/ada | 30 Nov 2021
    I picked up a MCP4725 I2C DAC and an ADS1015 I2C ADC from AdaFruit and plan to write drivers for them for my personal driver library (as a side note, if anyone wants to move any of these to the Ada Driver Library, feel free). I am thinking of using these to add another module to my Raspberry Pi Mainframe Simulator so that I can have some knobs and a meter doing important looking things.
  • Blinkenlights and PDP-11 Assembly Language.
    2 projects | /r/PDP11 | 5 Nov 2021
    I got inspired to make my own version of blinkenlights. This is before I heard about projects like the blinkenbone or PiDP-11. My version with 3D models to print and the Ada source code is here, Pi-Mainframe I think got simh running on it, booted RSTS/E and am now exploring PDP-11 assembly language for the first time since about 1985. Some of my routines are here, PDP-11 stuff. I hope that I've learned a few things since 1985 ;-)

gcc-darwin-arm64

Posts with mentions or reviews of gcc-darwin-arm64. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-07.
  • GCC 12.1 Released
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 May 2022
    Impressive, too bad Apple silicon is still not supported officially, for people that want to build GCC themselves on M1 machines check these GCC forks:

    https://github.com/iains/gcc-darwin-arm64

  • MacBook Pro M1 - Ada development
    1 project | /r/ada | 19 Mar 2022
    Using [this work](https://github.com/iains/gcc-darwin-arm64) I’ve been able to produce a working aarch64-apple-darwin21 suite - a prerelease version of GCC12 + the usual set of tools (no debugger, though - who needs them?!). A bit of polishing & a write-up, it’ll be good to go.
  • March 2022 What Are You Working On?
    14 projects | /r/ada | 28 Feb 2022
    This release will run on M1 using the Rosetta code translation. Work is in hand to build a native compiler, looking good I think.
  • Apple laptops with the M1 chip?
    1 project | /r/ada | 16 Apr 2021
    Work in progress here; from the test results issue,

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ada-lox

PragmARC - The PragmAda Reusable Components

drivers - An assortment of drivers

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