[net.micro] Z-80, CP/M Emulator for Macintosh?

OTHB@SRI-KL.ARPA (02/02/84)

From:  Jon L. Spear <OTHB@SRI-KL.ARPA>

	I am not sure what possessed me to do it, but I just
bought an Apple Macintosh.  Nifty machine, but a dirth of
software -- no programming language available yet (to users).

	Has anyone done Z80 or 8080 emulators for the 68000
so that they could run the thousands of CP/M programs in the
world?  I am not too concerned with the obvious media problems.
The question is whether it is feasible to write an emulator
that would fit in the 128K RAM, allow a reasonable size TPA,
and run CP/M programs at a speed close to that of a 2MHZ Z-80.
(emulated on the 8MHZ 68000).

	With a Z-80 costing only a few bucks, a hardware solution
might be much more reasonable.

Comments?

--Jon
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SHahn@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA (02/02/84)

From:  Sam Hahn <SHahn@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>

Are you sure the 68k is actually running at 8Mhz, and not 5 Mhz, as I thought?
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