From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Olson Subject: Re: Future of ELKS Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 22:55:58 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040520225207.T3312@agora.rdrop.com> References: <1084985870.3062.23.camel@talena.hsol.net> <40AC99A5.9030809@agora-2000.com> <1085066127.3062.35.camel@talena.hsol.net> <20040520153744.GL24490@duckman.distro.conectiva> <40AD4286.1090801@cowlark.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <40AD4286.1090801@cowlark.com> List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org > > 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