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- From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: IBM Emulators
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.150854.24070@newshost.lanl.gov>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 15:08:54 GMT
- References: <1992Sep14.203757.19120@csi.uottawa.ca>
- Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov
- Reply-To: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov
- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Lines: 19
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- In article 19120@csi.uottawa.ca, cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne) writes:
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- >You aren't talking about an <IBM> emulator. Some marketing droid may call
- >it an emulator, but it is NOT. An emulator is something that pretends
- >to be something else. The AT-Speed does not emulate an 80286 - it
- >actually HAS an 80286 on board. Similarly, the "386 emulator" will
- >ACTUALLY have an 80386 (or perhaps one of the competing clone chips)
- >on board.
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- emulator-smemulator, who cares? In common parlance, we use the term to discuss
- a hardware or software tool which allows us to execute software written for another
- platform. Construction is not important... performance & compatability is!
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