From 4b20c6994244d85229e7bf66d20d6e3afcea21ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hneemann Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 18:59:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] updated the README.md --- README.md | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 5604beea3..d14c8162a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -14,13 +14,14 @@ Digital is a simulator for digital circuits. It is designed for educational purp Prior to the development of Digital, I used [Logisim](http://www.cburch.com/logisim/), developed by Carl Burch. If you are familiar with Logisim you will recognize the wire color scheme. -Logisim is an excellent and proven tool for teaching purposes. Unfortunately, Carl Burch discontinued the development of -Logisim in 2014. Instead he has started the development of a new simulator called [Toves](http://www.toves.org/) in 2013. +Logisim is an excellent and proven tool for teaching purposes, that has been actively developed until 2011. +In 2013 Carl Burch has started the development of a new simulator called [Toves](http://www.toves.org/). In his [blog](http://www.toves.org/blog/) he explained why he decided to develop a new simulator instead of improving Logisim. In short: There are weaknesses in Logisims architecture which are too difficult to overcome. Unfortunately, the development of Toves was discontinued at a very early stage. -Carl Burch has released Logisim as open source so there are a number of forks to continue the work on Logisim: +In 2014, Carl Burch finally [discontinued](http://www.cburch.com/logisim/retire-note.html) the development of +Logisim. Since Logisim was released as open source, there are a number of forks to continue the work on Logisim: - [Logisim-Evolution](https://github.com/reds-heig/logisim-evolution) by people of a group of swiss institutes (Haute École Spécialisée Bernoise, Haute École du paysage, d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Genève, and Haute École d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud) - [Logisim](https://github.com/lawrancej/logisim) by Joseph Lawrance at Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA