# dps8m mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

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## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:dps8m
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install dps8m
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#dps8m
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/dp/dps8m/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:dps8m
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.1.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Simulator of the 36-bit GE/Honeywell/Bull 600/6000-series mainframe computers
- **Homepage:** <https://dps8m.gitlab.io/>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-25T13:37:39+02:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- dps8 (Alias)
- prt2pdf (Alias)
- punutil (Alias)
- tap2raw (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 3.1.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

DPS8M is a simulator for the 36-bit GE, Honeywell, and Bull 600/6000-series mainframes, especially the DPS-8/M line descended from GE-645 hardware and associated with running Multics.

### Projektgeschichte

The project presents itself as the DPS8M Simulator and credits the DPS8M Development Team across 2006-2025 in its README. Its GitLab project was created in February 2019, consistent with a later public hosting home for a longer-lived simulator codebase.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

DPS8M's adoption is primarily in retrocomputing, operating-system preservation, and Multics study rather than ordinary application development. Packaging in Homebrew and Nix gives users a repeatable way to install a simulator that would otherwise live mostly in source builds and specialist documentation.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users build or install the simulator, then run dps8 and companion utilities such as tape and printer conversion tools. The official documentation is aimed at end users, operators, developers, and package maintainers, covering installation, compilation, configuration, operation, and troubleshooting.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package nerds, DPS8M is interesting because it packages a historically specific mainframe simulator with multiple utilities, generated cross-reference documentation, and release-specific omnibus manuals, tying modern Unix package management to preserved 36-bit computing environments.

### Zeitleiste

- 2006: the project README's copyright range begins, indicating the long-running development team history.
- 2016: early alpha and release-candidate tags were present in the GitLab tag history.
- 2019: the GitLab project record was created.
- 2025: official documentation listed release-specific manuals for R3.0.0, R3.0.1, and R3.1.0.

### Related projects

- Multics
- SIMH
- GE-645
- Honeywell 6180
- Bull DPS-8/M

### Quellen

- <https://gitlab.com/dps8m/dps8m>
- <https://gitlab.com/dps8m/dps8m/-/raw/master/README.md>
- <https://dps8m.gitlab.io/dps8m/Documentation/>
- <https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/dps8m%2Fdps8m>
- <https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/dps8m%2Fdps8m/repository/tags?per_page=100>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - dps8m: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/dp/dps8m/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/dps8m.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/dps8m.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph