intel emus

[steuben]

here\'s an interesting exercise. build a pentium iii emu for a 286. or if you are feeling particularly ambitious a p4 emu for an 086.

there doesn\'t appear to be any pratical problems, or at least i can\'t see any.

[Yarulion]

Huh? o.O

[steuben]

the instruction sets are backwards compadible. but, they aren\'t forewards compadible.

so basically i\'m floating the idea of an emu.

[Yarulion]

OK, in this instance I meant \"Huh?\" like \"Wtf is this dude talking about? Sounds like a bunch of technical gibberish... I know what a pentium III is...\" rather than \"Huh?\" meaning \"Hmm, I really wish he would tell me more, in a similarly complicated manner, about why this is so interesting.\"

So, to clarify...
...are you talking about this kind of emu?
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[steuben]

emu: abreviation of emulator.
example: psx emu; a program to run pxs games on an unrelated processor and equipment.

as to why it is interesting? well, probably like climbing mountins because they are there.

[karakth]

Hmm but wouldn\'t it be extremely slow?

[dfryer]

It would be fantastically, retardedly slow.  Slower than.. well, whatever processor you were using to do the emulation

It is, however, quite possible;  I would guess that an open-source emulator like bochs could be targeted for 386 instead of pentium.