Re: Wine

[Andrew Sharp <andy@netfall.com>]

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> > A good friend of mine was one of the chief architects of the Pentium
> > and later the Itanium.  He told me that when they were designing the
> > pentium, a very ground breaking design at the time, they used a
> > cray-xmp to run their processor simulator on.  A very fast machine,
> > and still not too shabby today.  He told me that it took almost a
> > month to get the DOS "C" prompt when booting DOS on the simulation
> > program.  I would expect that this setup would be just a day or two
> > faster.
> 
> Of course that was a full-chip emulation, i.e. an emulation of all gates on
> the chip.
> 
> That would be overkill for a real-world application. There emulating the
> behavior of the whole chip is sufficient.

I am well aware.  But you just might have missed my tongue-in-cheek
point. ~:^)

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