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Subject: Re: 16-bit Apple //[ce]
Message-ID: <2123@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 08:56:35 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  7 08:56:35 1986
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> In article <266@isosvax.UUCP> nate@isosvax.UUCP (Nate LeSane) writes:
> >
> >Not only is this system compatible with all Apple // software, also the
> >65C816 supposedly has a 68000 emulation mode which will allow the system
> >to execute Macintosh software. The system is being shipped with 3 1/2"
> >media.
> 
> This is typical Infoworld idiocy.  The 65C816 emulates the 6502, not
> the 68000.
> 
> -- 
> David DiGiacomo  {decvax, ihnp4, ucbvax}!sun!david  david@sun.arpa
> Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, CA  (415) 960-7495
The 65816 may not have a built in 68000 emulation mode, but what is to stop
one from writing a 68000 emulator in software on the 65816? I wrote a 6502
emulator to run on a 3b20, and probably could do it the othewr way around, too,
if one could accept an execution speed of 1 ins./sec or so:-).

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