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From: pashdown@javelin.es.com (Pete Ashdown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: A/UX on AMAX
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.182428.4269@javelin.es.com>
Date: 17 Jan 91 18:24:28 GMT
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kawakami@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (John Kawakami) writes:

>In respose to the "no-board" emulator advocate: a board with a 6502 on it
>would be the best way to emulate an AppleII (or C64 or Atari 800 or PET
>or any 6502 machine.)  There is a lot of overhead involved in emulating
>the instruction set, so you save lots of time and effort.  Plus, you get
>better compatibility with  software.  If you run the processor
>at 4Mhz, it will run faster than the original host machines.

I assume this was in response to my jab about Apple requiring a card to
emulate a //e on a 20 mhz Mac SI.  The processor on the board would make
sense if you were to be running the emulator in a window.  However, as I
understand it, the emulator on the SI takes over the machine.

-- 
"No, no, no!  It is an empirical law of physics that the heat flux at any
point is proportional to the temperature gradient at that point."
                   - Claudia Schiffer, over breakfast.
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