[cctalk] Re: Z80 vs other microprocessors of the time.

Probably not. Cycle accurate simulation is very hard. It's only rarely been done for any CPU, and if done it tends to be incredibly slow. I remember once using a MIPS cycle-accurate simulator (for the SB-1, the core inside the SB-1250, later called BCM-12500). It was needed because the L2 cache flush code could not be debugged any other way, but it was very slow indeed. Almost as bad as running the CPU logic model in a Verilog or VHDL simulator. I don't remember the numbers but it probably was only a few thousand instructions per second.