DocumentCode
1935852
Title
The design and development of a software emulator
Author
Nash, Henry
Author_Institution
Insignia Solutions Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA
fYear
1989
fDate
Feb. 27 1989-March 3 1989
Firstpage
288
Lastpage
291
Abstract
The authors company has developed a complete emulation of an IBM PC entirely in software. The product (SoftPC) is capable of running virtually all software available for the IBM PC on non-Intel-based computers, including the MS-DOS operating system, without any modification. Using emulation techniques, excellent performance results have been achieved.<>
Keywords
IBM computers; software packages; software portability; virtual machines; SoftPC; Application software; Emulation; Hardware; Operating systems; Personal communication networks; Power generation; Reduced instruction set computing; Software architecture; Software standards; Workstations;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
COMPCON Spring '89. Thirty-Fourth IEEE Computer Society International Conference: Intellectual Leverage, Digest of Papers.
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN
0-8186-1909-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CMPCON.1989.301943
Filename
301943
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