Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mmlai!burzio
From: burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Anthony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: History of Tapes (was Re: Would you believe...)
Summary: SoftPC and hunger
Message-ID: <600@mmlai.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 89 11:58:36 GMT
References: <760004@hpfelg.HP.COM> <7540040@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM>
Organization: Martin Marietta Labs, Baltimore, MD
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In article <7540040@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM>, fritz@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM (Gary Fritz) writes:
> It certainly wouldn't, but that's not the issue.  Writing a 68K virtual
> machine on the 800 would be comparable to writing an 80x86 VM.  Have you
> ever used the SoftPC product?  It works just great, except it eats your 800.
> Emulating a dissimilar architecture is a lot of work for the *computer*
> as well as the programmer.  I can't fathom how you could expect a 5-10% 
> performance difference!

Odd, SoftPC doesn't gnaw on my 9000/360 or my 9000/370...  Remember, PCs
have this nasty habit of going into polling loops to read input.  This
would suck all the marrow out of a processor indeed!  Emulating a well
behaved operating system, however, shouldn't be such a problem :-)

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