semi-homemade micro

woodelf bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Mon Nov 14 14:14:09 CST 2005


Don North wrote:

> Doing some math, 2GHz/100KHz is 2000MHz/0.1MHz or 20,000. At 6X the 
> cycle count is then 20K/6 = 3333 (not 3.3M).
> One would think it takes well less than 3000 X86 instructions to 
> emulate a PDP-8 instruction (assuming one instr per clock).
>
I would say it takes a few instructions since you have to mask for 12 
bit words, and remember the PC is running windows and all
sorts of other stuff. The point is the emulation is at least 6x faster 
or more compared to
the original.  Faster may not allways be better for emulation.

> Jim Battle wrote:




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