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#Emulating

    25-May-94 01:59:16
Sb: #147879-#Emulating
Fm: Robert Little 72567,677
To: J Saperstein/FontBank 75300,632
Jerry, I see that Michael has mentioned the difference between CrossPC and CrossDos… The point I was making about 'my understanding' of Jim's '486 emulation on Emplant was that he was going to translate the '486 code to 680×0 code as it loaded (and perhaps ?!? change DOS/BIOS calls to AmigaDOS calls), thereby allowing the program to run at, nearly, full speed for the CPU you have. Whereas, other programs attempt to interpret instructions one at a time, during execution (having to contend with the 'emulated' environment) thus making for lots of 680×0 code being executed for each '486 op code executed…slow… Robb I still don't think he can do it. I hope he proves me wrong! Then again I may, probably, totally, misunderstand what he's doing.