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development, we appreciated the possibility to turn logging of the devices to a specified
verbosity.
 
We used it to test and develop amd64 and ia32 architectures in SMP mode and mips32 architecture in UP mode.
We used it to test and develop amd64 and ia32 architectures in SMP mode and mips32 architecture in UP mode. Simics emulates the 4Kc processor on the MIPS architecture.
Unfortunately, this processor does not have an exception Reserved Instruction, which
makes it unusable in an environment with programs using thread local storage.
 
Regardless of its invaluable qualities, it has still contained bugs. One of the most
serious was bug with ticket \#3351. {\OP} discovered that its BIOS rewrites kernel memory