tcl, cell simulator, and simos

I was reading an article (via slashdot) about IBM's cell
simulator (mambo), and some tcl related uses.

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-expert7/?ca=dgr-lnxwMamboTeam

The article is an interview with members of the team that
created mambo. In it are some passing references to tcl
being used as a scripting component.

Mambo itself seems to be based on a powerpc simulator
called SimOS. Looking around on the wiki, there's a
unwritten page for SimOS on Larry Virden's page.

My friend Google turned up this url

http://simos.stanford.edu/introduction.html

an introduction to SimOS, what it is, etc, complete
with some sample tcl.

http://simos.stanford.edu/userguide/

talks about the uses of tcl for SimOS.

In a nutshell, SimOS is a machine simulator (not an OS
simulator, which is what the name suggests to me). It
simulates (``models'') MIPS and Alpha based machines: cpu
(UP and MP), cache, memory, ethernet, disks etc. Various
versions of Irix and Digital Unix have been ported. It seems
linux is the next target. So, a qemu/vmware for mips and
alphas.

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