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Re: IIe emulation card ?'s.




In article <labelas-2807991434290001@host-209-214-27-50.psl.bellsouth.net>,
labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth) wrote:

>In article <B3C3D1F096684D921@viper.clubi.ie>, gospodin@clubi.ie (Vincent
>Quinn) wrote:
>
>> Now a quibble: surely it's wrong to describe this card as an 'emulator'? It
>> puts an (almost) real IIe inside your LC-PDS series Mac. That isn't
>> 'emulation'?
>Yes, but several aspects of the IIe are emulated by the mac's hardware.
>(the different slots, for instance, are mapped to the mac equivalent)

Uh?  Slots in a Mac???

>and
>such. Plus, the IIe rom resides in a file which is loaded into memory by
>the 'IIe Startup' program, and has had several locations in it modified
>for the IIe card (and loader)...I guess it's an interesting combination of
>native hardware and emulated hardware.

Ok - let's call it a semiulator then  :-)

Vincent Q