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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: Bob Retelle <bobr1@provide.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 16:20:02 -0400
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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On Thu, 02 Aug 2001 17:33:38 GMT, James Alexander
<james-m-alexander@home.com> wrote:

>
>
>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.

You've never played Atari ST games on a PC using an emulator then, I
take it?   Or Atari 8-bit computer software on a PC?

BobR

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