Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

This is so wrong

“Emulating a CISC processor (i.e., the x86/IA-32 instruction set) via a small RISC processor (i.e., the ARM instruction set) is a very heavyweight task.”

And there was me thinking that running a spectrum emulator on your phone was cool… however, maybe a cygwin port would be handy?


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    • neilh

      There is no way to express the sheer wrongness, but I want to do it…I wonder if I can fire up an x86 emu on my old linux ipaq…?

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        • neilh

          I was going to start with VMWare and see where that took me…oh, the possibilities…maybe I could run a mac emulator, too?

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          • marvelousmrchip

            The nearest I got to this was running an x86 emulator (can’t remember which one, it was years ago in the mid-90’s) on an HP RISC box running HP-UX 9, and then running the XVision X-emulator inside that and displaying X-windows from the host HP box. Not quite the same thing as running a UNIX-lookalike inside the x86 emulator, but not bad. I thought it was rather cool, not “wrong” at all… but I’m a software guy.

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