Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > 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.
I am well aware. But you just might have missed my tongue-in-cheek point. ~:^) a
