Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!cynic!ireta!rob From: rob@ireta.cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Rob Prior) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: HP48sx Simulator for Dos? Message-ID: Date: 25 Apr 91 05:34:56 GMT References: <41569@cup.portal.com> Organization: Federation of Sentient Planets, Burnaby BC Lines: 19 > madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes: > >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. But don't forget that SoftPC isn't a 286/287 emulator. It is an 8088/87 (i forget which, specifically) emulator that runs at excessively high speeds. You will find that you can't run programs that specifically look for a 286 or higher processor. +------------ | rob@ireta.cynic.wimsey.bc.ca | Rob Prior, President, Still Animation Logo Design +------------------------------------------------------------