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!


"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
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> In article <3df3e6ca$1@news.povray.org> , "Apache"
> <apa### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
>
> > No clue. I remember my grandpa running a pc emulator with win95 on an
Acorn
> > many years ago. I was very impressed that such a small box could
actually do
> > that. For CISC machines not that hard to emulate a RISC machine. The
other
> > way around is another story!
>
> No, actually the other way around it the easy part.  Emulating a CISC on a
> RISC system is easy.  Emulating a RISC system on a CISC system is
difficult.
> Of course I am talking in terms of a _fast_ emulation.  Some slow
emulation
> is easy in either case as one can just write it in C and run everywhere.
A
> fast emulation requires to generate native code.  And it is easy to
generate
> good native code for a CISC system on a RISC system.  The other way around
> you already run into problems as you most likely don't have enough
registers
> on the CISC system to store all the emulated RISC registers in...
>
>     Thorsten
>
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