Wow! That means that I have been mixing up CISC and RISC for years!!!! I
thought intel=RISC and acorn/mac = CISC. That's weird weird weird!!!! I've
never mixed up things for such a long time? (In fact I still can't believe
it.)



"Christopher James Huff" <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in message
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> In article <3df436ba$1@news.povray.org>,
>  "Apache" <apa### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
>
> > Then why is emulating a mac on a intel so difficult? I've tried to find
out
> > if there is any way to run OSX on an intel machine and I haven't found
one
> > yet!
>
> Your question doesn't make sense, I'm gussing you didn't read things
> closely enough. As Thorsten said, "Emulating a CISC on a RISC system is
> easy.  Emulating a RISC system on a CISC system is difficult."
> This is why you have things like VirtualPC, but no VirtualMac. Emulating
> a Mac on an Intel processor is trying to emulate a RISC system on a CISC
> one.
>
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