From owner-freebsd-hackers  Fri Oct 25 13:53:36 1996
Return-Path: owner-hackers
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA13909
          for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:53:36 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA13884
          for <hackers@freebsd.org>; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:53:27 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100])
          by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id NAA17066
          for <hackers@freebsd.org>; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:40:20 -0700 (PDT)
Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA11747; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:40:13 -0600 (MDT)
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:40:13 -0600 (MDT)
Message-Id: <199610252040.OAA11747@rocky.mt.sri.com>
From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To: James da Silva <jds@TracerTech.COM>
Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: DOS emulation (was Re: Networking in PCEMU (1/2)) 
In-Reply-To: <199610252035.QAA09769@lex.tracertech.com>
References: <199610252035.QAA09769@lex.tracertech.com>
Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

>  > You'd have better luck building 'translator' code that changes the x86
>  > opcodes into native instructions on each platform, which DEC and IBM
>  > have done.
> 
> How about JIT translation of frequently-executed code from within the
> emulator?  Does Insignia do that?

I don't know, but I suspect not.


Nate