| From: | Mr.Return |
| Date: | 07 Aug 2000 at 09:06:11 |
| Subject: | Re: morphos ;-) |
Hello Steffen
On 06-Aug-00, you wrote:
>
> owner-warpup-list@haage-partner.com wrote :
>
> Hi!
>
>> The "Blackbox" emulation was meant for future PPC-only systems
>> to emulate the missing 68k CPU. But those systems never appeared.
>
>> I have it running since two years and the speed of 68k emulation
>> is comparable to MorphOS.
>
> The point is there is not really a point in using 68k Emulation on the
> current hardware (at least not for owners of 060 systems). Not the H&P
> Emulation, not the MorphOS Emulation... Of course 68k Emulation is
> interesting for future hardware (I also have Sams Emulation on my
> harddrive since quite a time, and I think the speed should be really
> interesting on a "decent" hardware - like G3 300 MHz + Second Level Cache
> lets say...). But releasing such a thing only for current hardware is a
> bit pointless, which is why H&P never released their Emulation...
This is only as long the case as the emulation is only interpretive ... with
a dynamic recompilation things would look very different because with an
604e you could go far beyond a 68060. And if you add special
recompiler-parts for special purposes, e.g. a function especially for the
recompilation of libraries and special emulation-traps for an easy
implementation of native parts you won�t miss the 69k, and you would be
much faster than MorphOS :-)
Regards
Alexander Lohrmann