Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!super!udel!gatech!ncar!noao!asuvax!nud!fishpond!fnf From: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga Emulators Message-ID: <134@fishpond.UUCP> Date: 7 Oct 88 05:06:36 GMT References: Reply-To: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish) Organization: occasionally Lines: 17 In article rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Francis Golembiewski) writes: > I've wondered >why doesn't some one make a program that, instead of trying to emulate all of >the hardware, doesn't take the software and create 68K machine code, treating >the software as "source" code of a high level language (in this case one which >has all the attributes of say an IBM or a Mac...). Granted this is a lot of >work... There is, but sorry, I can't recall the name of the company at the moment. I did see a demo when I worked at Motorola, where they took a generic IBM PC program, ran it through their compiler, and then ran the resulting executable on a Sun-3. It ran faster on a Sun-3 than it did on a real IBM PC. -Fred -- # Fred Fish, 1346 West 10th Place, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA # noao!nud!fishpond!fnf (602) 921-1113