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Subject: Z-80, CP/M Emulator for Macintosh?
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Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 07:34:28 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  2 07:34:28 1984
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From:  Jon L. Spear 

	I am not sure what possessed me to do it, but I just
bought an Apple Macintosh.  Nifty machine, but a dirth of
software -- no programming language available yet (to users).

	Has anyone done Z80 or 8080 emulators for the 68000
so that they could run the thousands of CP/M programs in the
world?  I am not too concerned with the obvious media problems.
The question is whether it is feasible to write an emulator
that would fit in the 128K RAM, allow a reasonable size TPA,
and run CP/M programs at a speed close to that of a 2MHZ Z-80.
(emulated on the 8MHZ 68000).

	With a Z-80 costing only a few bucks, a hardware solution
might be much more reasonable.

Comments?

--Jon
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