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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Is there anything left to emulate??
Message-ID: <1676@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 90 15:06:40 GMT
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acliu@skat.usc.edu (Alex C. Liu) writes:

>In article <1670@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:

>>Amiga, IBM (XT/AT), Mac, Unix, ST, CPM, C64, DecWindows Terminal,
>>Xwindows terminal, Apple II.

>>Amiga can emulate just about anything. should have called it the Chameleon 
>>instead. About the only thing we can't do yet is the NeXT, and the Sun.

>Hey!  How about a Vic 20?  Or a Sincliar ZX-81?  Hmm how about the
>TI-94A?  Coleco Adam?

They are DEAD, (bwahhh-ha-ha!!) so they don't count. Actually CP/M is
mostly dead now also. There has to be a software base out there for the
emulation to use before it's worth anything to bother writing the emulation
in the first place. And I guess I should have left out the NeXT and Sun as
they are workstations, not PC's. But all this emulation talk reminds me of
an april fools article I read last year about a MacIntosh emulator for the
Cray XMP. It was 99.9% NOPs in order to slow down the Cray enough to run the
Mac software at normal speeds.


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