Subj : Re: Running linux in vm on li
To   : Derision
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Oct 29 2018 09:49 am

  Re: Re: Running linux in vm on li
  By: Derision to Nightfox on Sun Oct 28 2018 01:35 pm

 De> It's actually more significant than that, even. The PowerPC's emulation of
 De> the 68k is actually at the hardware level, rather than in software. Since
 De> the PowerPC was developed by Apple, IBM, and Motorola, one of it's main
 De> functions was specifically to replace the 68k, and software-level
 De> emulation at that point wasn't anywhere near efficient enough to do so
 De> effectively. So the emulation is built into the chips themselves.

Interesting..  I do remember hearing somewhere that Mac software for 68k
sometimes ran better on the PowerPC - Probably due to the hardware backwards
compatibility.

Nightfox

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