Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!gatech!bloom-beacon!husc6!uwvax!dogie!terranova@vms.macc.wisc.edu From: terranova@vms.macc.wisc.edu (John Terranova) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Applefest & GS/OS Message-ID: <714@dogie.edu> Date: 26 Sep 88 06:41:27 GMT Sender: news@dogie.edu Distribution: na Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center Lines: 28 In article <8809231536.AA23160@wpi.local>, TMURPHY@wpi.BITNET writes... >What, pray tell, is a Chamelon chip? Does anyone actually make such >an unlikely beast? Details, please. > A Chameleon (sp?) chip is the figment of someone's vivid imagination. I don't believe that such a chip exists, yet. (I'm sure I will be corrected if I am mistaken.) What the chip would do is up to the programmer. If the programmer wishes s/he had a 65C02 to program, then the chip will function as a 65C02. If the programmer desires a 68000, then (presto) the chip thinks it is a 68000. Want an 80386? Just tell the chip to emulate one and there you go. The idea behind such a chip is to design a computer that can emulate various other computers with different chips. If one chip can emulate all the other chips then that is the only one you would need. >Thomas C. Murphy Worcester Polytechnic Institute CAD Lab -----------------------------+----------------+---------------------------- John C. Terranova | I said it. | I'm not a Computer CS, BS to be | So, flame me. | Science Undergraduate, terranova@vms.macc.wisc.edu | No one else. | but I play one at school. -----------------------------+----------------+---------------------------- It's awful hard to try to make love long-distance. --Billy Joel, "Just a Fantasy"