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- From: dug@athena.cs.uga.edu (Douglas Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.amiga
- Subject: Re: Atari Falcons $799... WHO CARES! Just emulate it.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.145454.3924@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 14:54:54 GMT
- References: <1992Sep02.184109.8805@microsoft.com> <1992Sep3.011600.20641@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Sep4.065040.12997@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
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- In article <1992Sep4.065040.12997@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> rcstoeck@iiic.ethz.ch (Raymond Claude Stoecklin) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep3.011600.20641@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> rrumpf@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert Rumpf) writes:
- >
- >>though...any chance you will develop other emulators (Mac in a PC, Atari in a
- >>Mac....nah, forget that one, how about Amiga in a Mac?).
- >You guys must be kidding ! How do you want to write an emulator that runs
- >prgs written for a foreign cpu and os in a reasonable speed ?
- >If this was possible, I'd like to have a 486DX-Emulator for my A3000, please:-)
- >Or what about a Amiga-Emulator for the * C64 * that also handles blitter,
- >copper and paula access ?
- >I'm waiting :-)
- >
- Well, my SPARC 2 at work I can run native SunOS programs, native OpenWindows
- programs, native Sunview applications, DOS & Windows programs (via SunPC 3.0)
- and Macintosh programs (via Liken).
-
- I must be fair and add that these additional emulations (DOS and Mac) run at
- less than reasonable speed. But the important thing is that they run. I have
- access to programs that I NEED not that I want and if I NEED a program I have
- the ability to access it.
-
- >>Bob
- > Ray.
-
- My .02 on emulators...
-