Ski itself needs about 15MB of disk space. Ski Interface Ski provides an informative, screen oriented machine state display and a friendly command interface. Programs may be loaded from disk in executable format. Programs may be run either from start to finish, or via single stepping over individual instructions in the program, with support for break points. Certain Linux and MS-DOS system calls are also made available to facilitate simulation of application programs.
Ski provides a screen oriented symbolic debugging capability.
Ski has been successfully used to develop and test a range of applications. In order to start using ski, you should be familiar with the IA-64 architecture and the C programming language. Additionally, the IA-64 Linux Developer's Kit FAQ is available here . Known Ski Limitations Ski doesn't simulate concurrent execution. It executes instructions one at a time.