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From: andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: The 4.77MHz PC isn't 8086 based
Message-ID: <9724@tekecs.TEK.COM>
Date: 5 Feb 88 16:30:27 GMT
References: <4746@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1430@husc2.UUCP> <4227@utai.UUCP> <2474@orca.TEK.COM> <1027@uop.edu>
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Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon
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Keywords: Intel IBM
Summary: It's a sucker bet

>> Basically, I agree that a 68000 probably cannot emulate an 8086
>> without some sort of hardware assistance ...

> Wanna bet?  I have in front of me a beast named 'PC-ditto' for my Atari
> ST.... runs most IBM PC software about as fast as the original 4.77 
> MHz (?) PC did ...

The original 4.77MHz PC was based on an 8088, not an 8086, and the note
to which you responded quoted an emulator that is faster than the
original PC in the very next paragraph.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (andrew%tekecs.tek.com@relay.cs.net)   [ARPA]