On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:31:40AM -0700, Bob Miller wrote:
> > [..]
> > 
> >                          MacPaint
> >                             v
> >                MacOS 9's m68k-PPC translator
> >                             v
> >                         MacOS 9.2
> >                             v
> >                    Classic environment
> >                             v
> >                     MacOS X (PowerPC)
> >                             v
> >                Rosetta PPC->ia32 translator
> >                             v
> >                      MacOS X (Intel)
> > 
> > muahahahahaha!
> 
> So?  The original Mac was 6 MHz.  The fastest 68K Mac ever was the
> Quadra 840AV at 40 MHz.  A modest Pentium IV at 3 GHz can probably
> emulate it 10-100 times faster than the original, and the system
> software, even with the emulators, will use a smaller fraction of RAM.

I don't know, there's just something incredibly scary and cool about that
many layers of emulation.  ;)
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