[Coco] (very very slightly OT) 6800 emulator

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

If you have the "more powerful" processor, that's the one you make and sell.  You develop the next generation with the tools you have.  That means running a semblance of the next processor at 10% of its eventual speed.  Or did you think the 8008 was built with 80386 CAD systems that wouldn't exist for a decade and some later?

The 6800 was designed mostly by _hand_ (and mind and HP calculator and drafting pencil).  It was used to build the 6809 and the 68000, which would have been real tricky without appropriate tool evolution.
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Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

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From: Manney <mannslists at invigorated.org>
> Well, I thought that normally the 'host' processor had to be more 
> powerful than the emulated processor to handle the emulation?