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From: mrush@ecst.csuchico.edu (Matt "C P." Rush)
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Subject: Re: RISC Amiga
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Date: 30 Oct 90 23:35:53 GMT
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In article <16105@hydra.gatech.EDU> ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes:
>
	[Lots of good RISC/CISC commentary deleted]
>
>This is simply not true.  I regularly run MS-DOS programmes on a
>SPARCStation 1 using SoftPC (a programme that has been ported to the
>MIPS, 88k and (I think) the 29k as well).  The IBM RS/6000 emulates a
>386 completely in software as fast as a real 386 in many cases.  RISC
>processors very much lend themselves to emulating other machines
>(within limits).  A RISC simulator of an Amiga, while probably not
>easy, is certainly doable by reasonably sharp team.  Hell, it might be
>easier than SoftPC since the 68k instruction set is so much cleaner
>and more orthoginal that the Intel rubbish.

	True, a 680x0 emulator would be easy, but the Amiga has those
CUSTOM CHIPS.  Those would be a little trickier to emulate in software.
(Not impossible, but the overhead to do it might be prohibitive).

>
>--
>	ken seefried iii	"A snear, a snarl, a whip that
>	ken@dali.gatech.edu	 stings...these are a few of
>				 my favorite things..."


	-- Matt

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