Alto II (was Re: PDP-8 prices

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Mon Jan 25 21:34:11 1999

On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Derek Peschel wrote:

> But you're right. The emulator wouldn't just have to emulate a specific
> CPU, it would have to emulate the microcode. At the least, you would have
> to have 2-3 special-case emulators for 2-3 different instruction sets.
> (Perhaps they would magically recognize the current microcode image and use
> the appropriate instruction set.) And there's the disk hardware and the
> video hardware to deal with as well.

Why not just write a microcode emulator?

Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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