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  7.                                     Improvements
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  9.             Version 2.0:
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  11.                            The gates DELAYH, DELAYL, and XNOR were added
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  13.                            The options  GATEDELAY,  WIDTH,  and  INITIAL
  14.                            were added
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  16.                            The TIME and FANOUT options were improved
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  18.                            Error detection  was improved,  as errors  in
  19.                            either a  circuit descriptor or chip descrip-
  20.                            tor could  cause version 1.0 to hang, requir-
  21.                            ing a  control-break  to  stop  the  program.
  22.                            Now, version 2.0 detects those situations and
  23.                            aborts.
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  25.                            Simulation time was improved by altering some
  26.                            of the  data structures  and simplifying  the
  27.                            chip equations  when constant  highs or  lows
  28.                            are present
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  30.                            More chip descriptors were added.
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  34.             Version 2.1:
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  36.                            Long sequences  of 1's  and 0's  in DATA  and
  37.                            CLOCK sources  can now  be represented by re-
  38.                            peat counts  (e.g. 111111  can  be  typed  as
  39.                            (6*1) ).
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  41.                            The maximum delay is now 32,767 time units, a
  42.                            great increase  over the old limit of 32 time
  43.                            units.
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  49.                                 Planned improvements
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  51.             RAM chip  implementation.   Attempting to use RAM devices in
  52.                  LOGSIM (still)  is a  pain, and  is cautioned  against.
  53.                  DON'T, unless  you absolutely have to.  It's just hard,
  54.                  not dangerous  to code  a RAM  chip.   A future version
  55.                  will have a simple facility for simulating RAM devices.
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  57.             More memory.   LOGSIM  currently can  only use less than 64K
  58.                  for your  circuit.   In the future, this will expand to
  59.                  the limits of your PC's memory.
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