Wasn't it Thorsten Froehlich who wrote:
>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...

I thought he wanted a POV port for RicsOS. There is a RiscOS 3.11 port
that runs under Windows available under the names "VirtualA5000" and
"VirtualAcorn". 

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

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