Emulation or the real thing?

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Wed Oct 21 14:08:01 1998

At 02:58 PM 10/21/98 -0400, Bill Yakowenko wrote:
>
>Prediction: 100 years from now, pick any random business, and
>dig into their computer system. You will find that at least
>some of their software is "legacy code" running under an emulator
>for some long-forgotten machine.

Today's Alpha/MIPS/PPC Windows machines contain an x86 emulation
in ROM, used at boot-time to jump into and init the start-up ROMs of
Wintel-market add-on cards for video, networking, etc. DEC/Compaq
gives away an Intel emulator called FX!32 for Alpha boxes that can
run Windows x86 binaries as-is. PPC Macs have of course shipped
with 680x0 emulators from the start.

- John
Received on Wed Oct 21 1998 - 14:08:01 BST