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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: BITNET mail follows
Message-ID: <8287@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 1 Aug 88 00:53:06 GMT
References: <HEINEKEN%MTUS5.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> <8807290919.aa20744@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <8807290919.aa20744@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes:
>at 17 MIPS, the 88000 has the power to run an entirely software based
>emulation that would be as fast as today's Mac II

Hm, I doubt that.  A RISC instruction accomplishes much less than a CISC
instruction, so it takes more of them than a 1-to-1 ratio.  However, such
an emulation might perform acceptably enough to be useful anyway.