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Date:      Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:42:10 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@render.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ipfw vs ipfilter?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.960816104057.8304L-100000@minnow.render.com>
In-Reply-To: <199608152149.OAA01513@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > > (do we have to continue to embaress ourselves about how well we know how
> > >  to program in real BASIC ?:-)
> > 
> > Didn't all real hackers start out by programming TRS-80's and Apple IIe's 
> > back in '78/'79?  I've still got some of my Applesoft and 6502 programs.  
> > I just don't have a computer to run them on.
> 
> Commodore PET and Ohio Scientific computers with chicklet keyboards and
> no more than 4k of RAM, and only those after their South-West Technical
> Products 6800's with S100 busses finally gave up the ghost.
> 
> You can run your Apple programs on one of the 30 or so emulators, some
> of which run under X.
> 
> I'm told that a 200MHz P6 can run 1MHz 6502 code at almost full speed...

I bet it can emulate a 6502 much faster than that.  I used to have a 68k
emulator which was faster than an Amiga 500 when running on a 486/66 and a
P6 is a tad faster than that...

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Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd.	Mail:  dfr@render.com
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