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From: madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP48sx Simulator for Dos?
Keywords: HP48sx
Message-ID: <1991Apr21.184105.8597@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 21 Apr 91 18:41:05 GMT
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j.h.husgafvel writes:
>> at that time that there is nothing illegal doing that. It is however painfully
>> slow to emulate Saturn on PC (at least everyone told so ;-). If someone

Doesn't have to be, especially on a modern, fast processor.  I have a
286/287 emulator running on my 25 MHz 68040, and it's speed is equivalent
to a 10 MHz 286/287!  Pretty impressive.  (It's called SoftPC from Insignia.)
Since the 2 MHz, 4-bit processor in the 48 is far slower thatn a 286, I'd
venture to say that it is well within the realm of possibility to write
a Saturn emulator that runs *faster* that the real one on, say, a 25 MHz
386.

Mark Adler
madler@pooh.caltech.edu