[Coco] (very very slightly OT) 6800 emulator

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Not necessarily. The original prototypes of the 6809 were clocked in
Khz, and were a series of wire-wrapped boards, all just to test the
logic before committing to silicon. The emulation sort of served as a
proof of concept.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Coco] (very very slightly OT) 6800 emulator
> From: Manney <mannslists at invigorated.org>
> Date: Sun, April 29, 2007 1:40 pm
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> 
> Joel Ewy wrote:
> 
> >>> Interesting. Did you know the first 6809 emulator was written as a
> 6800
> >>> program? It was made during the design of the 6809 at Motorola.
> >> Isn't that a bit backwards? :) But this question is coming from
> >> someone who isn't quite as in depth about 680x processors as he'd like
> >> to be. :)
> >>
> > It isn't backwards so much as forward, or ahead of its time.  :) How
> > better to test a microprocessor that doesn't exist yet but to
> emulate it
> > on one that does?
> 
> Well, I thought that normally the 'host' processor had to be more 
> powerful than the emulated processor to handle the emulation?
> 
> -M.
> 
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