[Coco] What would a CoCo successor have to have as a minimum?

[Mark McDougall]

On 20/11/2010 11:39 AM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

> I'm not sure where the idea that FPGA is slower than a PC came from,
> but it's simply not true.

Unfortunately, it simply *is* true Aaron.

IIRC the absolute best we can squeeze out of Coco3FPGA is... what... 25MHz?

How fast do you think you can emulate a 6809 on a 3GHz machine? The mediocre 
performance you're seeing is because the emulators in question aren't 
optimised for speed - because they don't need to be. In most cases they're 
optimised for cross-platform compatibility, and for ease of programming.

I've seen a 1?2MHz Amiga copro emulate a 2MHz Z80 system at full speed. 
Imagine what you can do with a processor clocked 250 times faster...

Regards,

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