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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?

Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
From: "Dunny" <paul.dunn4@ntlworld.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:22:22 +0100
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amstrad.8bit, comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.sys.atari.advocacy, comp.sys.atari.st, comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.sinclair
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James Alexander <james-m-alexander@home.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> Branko Badrljica wrote:
>
> > It can emulate it, probably much quicker than 1 or 2 MHz 6502 or Z-80H
> > You wait a year or two and Celeron will be cheaper than 6502 ;o)
>
> This is not the least bit factual.  Intel processors are notoriously
> ineffecient.   all attempts at having them emulate other processors, even
> older ones, has been a miserable failure.

What utter rubbish. Realspec on my old intel emulates a Sinclair Spectrum
very nicely indeed.

D.

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