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Judging from the Github issues it seems like it's very slow, doesn't run on RPi 4 and hasn't really gotten any attention for 16 months. It's an interesting ide

by tpmx 6y ago

Judging from the Github issues it seems like it's very slow, doesn't run on RPi 4 and hasn't really gotten any attention for 16 months. It's an interesting idea though; running a bare metal x86 emulator on e.g. a Raspberry Pi 400.

tyingq 6y ago
The slowness issue is interesting, as the codebase it's forked from mentions it runs fairly well: "Even an old 400 MHz PowerPC G3 iMac running Linux is capable of more than 2 million instructions/sec" That would be 12x as many MIPS as the original 8086, on a relatively old CPU.
- anthk 6y ago
  Still slow. A G3 should be able to emulate a 386 under Bochs/Qemu with relative ease.
  - tyingq 6y ago
    Well, yes, but the issue says "Mem counts up at booting takes 10 minutes" That would be quite a lot slower than an 8086.
nimbius 6y ago
if i understand the issue correctly this program needs to be installed secretly on every raspberry pi during the next upgrade, and made part of a git commit with no message.