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1  Gavare's eXperimental Emulator   --   GXemul 0.3.5  Gavare's eXperimental Emulator   --   GXemul 0.3.7
2  ==================================================  ==================================================
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4  Copyright (C) 2003-2005  Anders Gavare.  Copyright (C) 2003-2005  Anders Gavare.
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7  Overview  Overview
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10  GXemul is an experimental instruction-level machine emulator. It can be used to  GXemul is an experimental instruction-level machine emulator. Several
11  run binary code for MIPS-based machines, regardless of host platform. Several  emulation modes are available. In some modes, processors and surrounding
 emulation modes are available. For some modes, processors and surrounding  
12  hardware components are emulated well enough to let unmodified operating  hardware components are emulated well enough to let unmodified operating
13  systems (e.g. NetBSD) run as if they were running on a real machine.  systems (e.g. NetBSD) run as if they were running on a real machine.
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15  (Non-MIPS emulation modes are also under development, but so far none of those  MIPS processors are emulated using either a simple binary translation
16  modes has reached the completeness required to run unmodified operating  layer ("recompilation"), which is used on Alpha and i386 hosts, or by
17  systems.)  traditional interpretation (very very slow, but works on any host platform).
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19    ARM and PowerPC processors are emulated using a newer dynamic translation
20    system. Performance is somewhere between traditional interpretation and
21    dynamic recompilation; however, the dynamic translation system used in
22    GXemul does NOT require platform-specific back-end code. In plain English,
23    this means that the dyntrans system works on any host platform.
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25    (PowerPC emulation is still relatively new in 0.3.7, so dont't expect too
26    much from it.)
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29  Quick start  Quick start
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