Bug#367520: RFP: nonpareil -- Simulator/emulator for most classic HP RPN calculators

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* Package name    : nonpareil
  Version         : 0.77
  Upstream Author : Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com>
* URL             : http://nonpareil.brouhaha.com/
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C, Python
  Description     : Simulator/emulator for most classic HP RPN calculators

Nonpareil is a high-fidelity simulator for calculators. It currently
supports many HP calculators models introduced between 1972 and 1982.
Simulation fidelity is achieved through the use of the actual microcode
of the calculators, thus in most cases the simulation behavior exactly
matches that of the real calculator. In particular, numerical results
will be identical, because the simulator is using the BCD arithmetic
algorithms from the calculator.

Microcode for several calculator models is included in the Nonpareil
source code distribution. This is possible because early HP calculator
microcode is not copyrighted by HP.

[Note: I've tried to build this myself, and failed. It needs someone
 with knowledge of GTK+ and Python, because it uses the scons build
 program and seems to expect GTK header files that aren't in the -devel
 packages, or are in different places.]

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_DK)