This is SPIM V4.2 (a MIPS R2000/R3000 Simulator) for Linux/i386, The file spim-bin.tar.gz contains command line and X11 binaries, compiled with gcc-2.5.8., plus the default trap handler. Extract files from this archive relative to the root "/" directory. The file spim-doc.tar.gz contains all necessary documents both in TeX as well as in Postscript format. Extract files from this archive whereever you want.