25 Jan
1999
25 Jan
'99
4:45 p.m.
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Derek Peschel wrote:
The main reason is that as far as emulation goes,
microcode is a totally
different animal than machine code. Things happen in parallel; although the
parts of the CPU are doing simple things (like simple arithmetic) they are
working together. You would have to duplicate them precisely and make a
single processor act as if it could do things in parallel. As Tony pointed
out, that may even involve accounting for certain individual logic gates.
The gate-level emulation by itself would be doable; the parallel-processing
emulation would be doable; both together would be much less doable.
I was all set to write one until you told me it would be too hard, so I
dropped the project :)
Seems like these obstacles could be over come with some clever state
machine programming.
So there you have it, Sam. This is why computer
science is such a
fascinating and frustrating subject. Add bad marketing, entropy, and
general greed and selfishness and things become REALLY interesting. :)
Stop being a nay-sayer and just do it, Derek! That's what college is for.
You could win a Haggle Online Best-of-Show award this year at the VCF with
it!
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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