Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 22:26

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In <jd-wong-0208952220470001@antwerp-11.slip.uiuc.edu> jd-wong@uiuc.edu (Jim Wong) writes:

>In article <3vp97i$er4@natasha.rmii.com>, Edmond <underwoe@Colorado.Edu> wrote:
>
>> the 80486 instruction set not Windows.  I imagine this product would be 
>> hard pressed for compatability though, since it can't possibly mimic all 
>> facets of the 80486 instruction set nor PC hardware in general.  I wonder 
>
>What's so hard about mimicking the 80486 instruction set?  I could
>probably do it, albeit slowly.

This is the easy part of the job.  The not so easy part is to emulate
the PC hardware to the point where not only an application program can
run, but also an operating system.  I'd love to see Linux for Intel
booting on a Mac emulating a 486 PC :-)

Dan
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