Chuck Guzis wrote:
  It depends largely on how things are implemented. I
can well imagine
 an 8080 running a pcode sort of implmentation, a la Sweet16 (for the
 6502). There may be a penalty in execution speed, but code density can
 be made to be comparable. 
I thought the discussion was for a native implementation.
Certain you
can use an 8080 to emulate anything else.