Cleaned up readme documentation to avoid potential confusion when initially setting up a windows build environment.

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Compiling on windows is supported with recent versions of Microsoft Visual Studio (Standard or Express) and using GCC via the MinGW environment. Things may also work under Cygwin, but that is not the preferred windows environment. Not all features will be available as well as with either Visual Studio or MinGW.
##### Required related files. The file https://github.com/simh/simh/master/Visual%20Studio%20Projects/0ReadMe_Projects.txt
##### Required related files. The file https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/master/Visual%20Studio%20Projects/0ReadMe_Projects.txt
##### Visual Studio (Standard or Express) 2008, 2010 or 2012
The file https://github.com/simh/simh/master/Visual%20Studio%20Projects/0ReadMe_Projects.txt describes the required steps to use the setup your environment to build using Visual Studio.
The file https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/master/Visual%20Studio%20Projects/0ReadMe_Projects.txt describes the required steps to use the setup your environment to build using Visual Studio.
##### MinGW
The file https://github.com/simh/simh/master/Visual%20Studio%20Projects/0ReadMe_Projects.txt describes the required steps to use the setup your environment to build using MinGW.
The file https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/master/Visual%20Studio%20Projects/0ReadMe_Projects.txt describes the required steps to use the setup your environment to build using MinGW.
#### VMS

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https://github.com/simh/windows-build/archive/windows-build.zip
Download and extract the contents of this zip file into the appropriate
place in your directory structure. You do not need to do anything else
but have this directory properly located.
Network devices are capable of using pthreads to enhance their performance.
To realize these benefits, you must build the desire simulator with
USE_READER_THREAD defined. The relevant simulators which have network
support are VAX, VAX780 and PDP11.
support are all of the VAX simulators and the PDP11 simulator.
Additionally, simulators which contain devices which use the asynchronous
APIs in sim_disk.c and sim_tape.c can also achieve greater performance by
leveraging pthreads to perform blocking I/O in separate threads. Currently
the simulators which have such devices are VAX, VAX780 and PDP11. To
achieve these benefits the simulators must be built with SIM_ASYNCH_IO
defined.
the simulators which have such devices are all of the VAX simulators and
the PDP11. To achieve these benefits the simulators must be built with
SIM_ASYNCH_IO defined.
The project files in this directory build these simulators with support for
both network and asynchronous I/O.
To build any of the supported simulators you should open the simh.sln file
in this directory.
If you are using a version of Visual Studio beyond Visual Studio 2008, then
your later version of Visual Studio will automatically convert the Visual
Studio 2008 project fils. You should ignore any warnings produced by the
conversion process.