> How stupidly expensive would CPU emulation be, anyway?

Depends on how much effort and code you want to pour into it. :-)

> I know I've seen software 8088's on 68000 boxes before, slow though
> they may be.

I've seen a software 80286 on some recent (non-68k) Macintosh.  It's a
commercial product called, I think, SoftPC, and I'm told a software
80386 also exists.  And I have a PDP-11 written in C that runs on SunOS
and probably would be easy to port to other OSes.  It could be speeded
up immensely by compiling the -11 code to native code instead of doing
pure interpretation, but of course that would then be sparc-specific
instead of the current more or less MI program.

					der Mouse

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