SIMCOM: the simulator compiler

Abstract

In many present-day activities involving the use of digital computers, the need often arises to run programs on a computer other than the one for which they are written. For example, the computer on which a program is intended to be run may exist only as a proposed design, or it may be in some stage of construction, or it may simply be at a remote location. One solution to the problem posed by such a situation is to prepare a program for an available computer which, in effect, transforms the available computer into the unavailable computer. Such a transformation program is called a computer simulation program, since it gives one computer the ability to simulate another.