I wonder if the emulator is doing an awful lot of "thinking" in the background?
After all, QDOS was flashing cursors, running interrupt code, flushing slave blocks etc.
Equally, I bet there is a huge amount of work being done under the covers by
the emulated MC680xx processor.
As I said in the earlier message, the emulator is just a continuous
loop, always emulating M68K instructions which never stop: Even when
"idle", Smsq/e always runs (if just to blink the cursor, or just to
check that it is not doing anything etc).
I have noticed that QPC somehow manages to modulate the CPU time needed
when being idle, but I have no idea how that is achieved.
Wolfgang
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