On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> A good friend of mine was one of the chief architects of the Pentium
> and later the Itanium. He told me that when they were designing the
> pentium, a very ground breaking design at the time, they used a
> cray-xmp to run their processor simulator on. A very fast machine,
> and still not too shabby today. He told me that it took almost a
> month to get the DOS "C" prompt when booting DOS on the simulation
> program. I would expect that this setup would be just a day or two
> faster.
Of course that was a full-chip emulation, i.e. an emulation of all gates on
the chip.
That would be overkill for a real-world application. There emulating the
behavior of the whole chip is sufficient.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
