Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 05:09:50 +0600 (LKT)
From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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Subject: Re: Not-emulators (was AMD processors and assembly language)
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 07:55:08 +0600 (LKT), Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel
> <kalum AT lintux DOT cx> wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH] wrote:
> >
> >> Damian Yerrick wrote:
> >> 
> >> > >Yes, most likely, but what I wanted to point out is the awesome
> >> > >overcloackbility of the athlons ...
> >> >
> >> > Speaking of Athlon:
> >> > Athlon is a VLIW RISC chip with a hardware Intel emulator frontend.
> >> 
> >> And, ironically, the 'emulation' runs faster than the original (at the same clock
> >> speed).
> >
> >It seems that most emulators work much faster than the originals! I know
> >it is strange but IIRC there was this user on this group who said that
> >carmageddon under WINE/LINUX gave hime a better frame rate than under
> >windoze!!!!
> 
> Wine Is Not an Emulator in the strictest sense ;-)

Well in reality it is a emulator, it enables windoze programs to run under
linux, it emulates the win32 API. SO it is a emulator.

> 
> What about DOSEMU for Linux?  How does a DOSEMU box compare to a
> Windows 98 DOS box?  Does it support graphics?

I haven't tun DOSEMU but I think that it even supports 16 bit etc graphics
mode. IIRC quake runs pretty well under it.

Grendel

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