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From: sysop@insider.zer.sub.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: re: NeXT emulation?
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Date: 20 Apr 91 09:53:15 GMT
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> Seeing that the Amiga list of emulators keeps growing I was wondering if there
> is anyone out there developing a NeXT emulator for the Ami.  Or does one alread
> y exist?

Excuse me, but how do you expect something like that to be written ? How do 
you think somebody could emulate a larger machine on a smaller one ?

In gerneral, you can only emulate a machine on another, when the other 
machine is at least as good or better than the machine to be emulated.

- MAC: just a bit of hardware with a Pseudo-OS. AMAX beats most Macs if run 
  on an 030 machine
- ST: not too intelligent machine either.
- PC: junk. Can be emulated with just 50K of code (IBeM)
- C64: old machine, but a bit tricky 'cause of the programing back doors
- Gameboy: No `machine' at all ... ;-)
a.s.o. ...

Could you imagine ANY of those machines emulating just 50% of the Amiga ? 
Impossible! The Amiga's hardware is much to `intelligent' to be emulated by 
software. Maybe a NeXT could make it. Or Sun.

The NeXT's hardware is about the same to the Amiga's hardware as the Amiga 
is to those machines. So: NO WAY...

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