nanogui: Re: Reactivate
Subject:
Re: [nanogui] Re: Reactivate
From:
"Chris Ross" ####@####.####
Date:
11 Jul 2001 14:41:55 -0000
Message-Id: <005801c10a18$3026b320$5e32000a@cadltd.com>
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. i getcha :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Holden" ####@####.####
To: "Chris Ross" ####@####.####
Cc: "Jeffrey Goddard" ####@####.#### ####@####.####
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [nanogui] Re: Reactivate
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Chris Ross wrote:
> > VMWare on the other hand emulates *everything* and also passes things
> > like networking back to the host machine - hence why it is slower.
>
> VMWare doesn't emulate the processor, it virtualises it. It does emulate
> the hardware and a few system instructions. As such it runs faster than an
> emulator, but it will still only run on top of x86. Same with Plex86. Same
> with Mac-On-Linux. A true emulator like Bochs will run on any system it
> has been ported to (which is relatively easy as it is written almost
> completely in C), but runs extremely slowly.
>
> --
> ------- Alex Holden -------
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>
>
