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- From: joeadato@tcpbbs.pcn.org (Joseph Adato)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: IBM Emulators
- Message-ID: <9gw6qB2w164w@tcpbbs.pcn.org>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 17:35:07 EDT
- References: <1992Sep14.203757.19120@csi.uottawa.ca>
- Organization: TCP BBS, Cleveland, Ohio
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- > You aren't talking about an 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.
- >
- > The Mihoka Gemulator, on the other hand IS a true emulator since it
- > makes an 80{3,4}86 pretend that it's a 68000. The original PC Ditto
- > was a true emulator (and I don't remember hearing any hard info about
- > any other actual emulator), and was brutally slow because of this.
- >
- > \end{donningAsbestosJacket}
- >
- > --
- > Christopher Browne
- > cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca
- > University of Ottawa
- > Master of System Science Program
-
-
- The original questions delt with the ability of the ST to emulate an IBM
- style computer i.e., IBM or IBM clone. The individual who posted the
- original message had heard that these IBM emulators were extremely slow
- and is so wanted to know it he should just go out and make the purchase
- of an IBM/IBM clone. My response was to inform him that this was not the
- case. If you choose to not call any of the hardware IBM "emulators" for
- the ST emulators is, as far as I'm concern, a mute point. If I want to
- to run IBM software on my ST I want the fastest device I can have to do it
- with. I don't care what it's called, or how it works. I only want it to
- do the job I want done. I believe most users are of the same mind as I am.
-