From: Dan Olson <dano@agora.rdrop.com>
To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Future of ELKS
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 22:55:58 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040520225207.T3312@agora.rdrop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40AD4286.1090801@cowlark.com>
> > Hey, someone know if a 8086 is fast enough run emulators for those old
> > 8-bit game consoles? 8)
>
> Nah. A 4.77MHz 8086 does not get a lot of work done. Say you want to
> emulate a 2MHz 6502, such as the BBC Micro... this means you have about
> two and a half cycles to emulate each 6502 cycle. Just not possible.
Who said it had to be 4.77MHz? I've seen at least 10MHz 8088s, and 286s
up to 20MHz I think, and of course both are 16 bit vs. 8. Not to imply
that it's a good idea, just that it can be done if you clock the CPU fast
enough :)
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-21 5:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-19 20:55 Future of ELKS Miguel Bolanos
2004-05-20 3:39 ` I'm in Void
2004-05-20 14:47 ` Miguel Bolanos
2004-05-20 11:42 ` Javier Sedano
2004-05-20 15:15 ` Miguel Bolanos
2004-05-20 15:37 ` Eduardo Pereira Habkost
2004-05-20 16:06 ` Andrey Romanenko
2004-05-21 5:51 ` Dan Olson
2004-05-20 17:30 ` Javier Sedano
2004-05-21 8:32 ` Gábor Lénárt
2004-05-21 14:15 ` Jody
2004-05-24 9:29 ` Gábor Lénárt
2004-05-24 18:20 ` Alan Cox
2004-05-20 23:43 ` David Given
2004-05-21 1:04 ` Stefan de Konink
2004-05-21 3:39 ` Chad Page
2004-05-29 16:58 ` Gregg C Levine
2004-05-21 5:55 ` Dan Olson [this message]
2004-05-21 6:08 ` Jody
2004-05-21 13:24 ` Eduardo Pereira Habkost
2004-05-21 16:30 ` David Given
2004-05-21 16:59 ` Michael McConnell
2004-05-22 12:12 ` David Given
2004-05-22 17:29 ` Chad Page
2004-05-21 18:38 ` Jody
2004-05-22 8:53 ` jb1
2004-05-22 17:00 ` Chad Page
2004-05-24 9:42 ` Gábor Lénárt
2004-05-20 16:54 ` Javier Sedano
2004-05-21 5:50 ` Dan Olson
2004-05-21 9:08 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2004-05-21 10:24 ` Alan Cox
2004-05-24 12:20 ` Gábor Lénárt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-20 13:40 Pat Gilliland
2004-05-21 17:53 ` Miguel Bolanos
2004-05-20 20:18 Tommy McCabe
2004-05-24 13:17 BODRATO Stefano
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