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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Amiga ST?
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Date: 20 May 88 20:01:32 GMT
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>Why?  First, the programming invloved would be too extensive, taking up at least 400K-500K, which for many Amiga owners would render the "ST Emulator" worthless, since all they have is 512K.  Next, the speed of the emulator would be about nil, since an Atari 1040ST running at a full 8Mhz can emulate a wimpy 6502 Atari 8-bit at about .5Mhz.  Since the Amiga is almost a full point slower than the ST (8Mhz for the ST compared to 7.16Mhz on the Amiga), the Amiga would process at about .00001Mhz running S
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	You obviously have little or no experience writing emulators.

	The *actual* reason is that there is no reason any Amiga owner
would ever want to emulate an Atari.

					-Matt