[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[scott at alfter.diespammersdie.us]

In comp.sys.raspberry-pi Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs at kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
> Back in my Amiga days, I played with the Transformer, a
> software emulation of an 8088 on a 68000.  It would run
> MS-DOS, but very slowly - I figured about a 10x slowdown.
> Once just for giggles I ran Z80MU (a Z80 emulation for
> MS-DOS) under the Transformer.  Under these two levels
> of emulation I fired up the CP/M BASIC interpreter and
> typed "PRINT SIN(whatever)".  It came back with the
> correct answer - 7 seconds later.

...and I thought TI BASIC on the 99/4A was slow. :)

"Let's build a 16-bit computer...but hobble it with an 8-bit bus, and make
it access most of the available RAM through a one-byte window into memory
that's only directly attached to the video processor, and implement BASIC in
a pseudocode-like language that itself gets interpreted at runtime on the
CPU.  What could possibly go wrong?"

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