Questions about the name change
TheThirdOne opened this issue · 2 comments
I have been watching this project for a bit and was surprised to see a name change. Is there a specific reason for the change?
Is this project inspired by MARS? You mention SPIM as an inspiration, but with the name change to a planet it seems like MARS may also have been considered.
Also, in case you are not aware there are two other risc-v simulators that were directly inspired from MARS, venus and rars (my project).
Hi sorry for the late response, when I started developing this project the main inspiration was SPIM because I was only planning to do a CLI in order to have a tool that could be used in a Compilers class in my University (2017-2018). But then a couple of professors ask me to do a GUI for other classes (this was inspired by Venus primary and by MARS).
I changed the name to Jupiter because of traditional reasons (Venus, MARS) and this planet represents in some sort the number five in contrast to RISC-V (the 5th gen of the original ISA designed in the 90's).
In the mean time, I realized that other great simulators have been developed and I would like to point to this others simulators (like yours) in my documentation in the last version when it comes out.
Thanks for the explanation.