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1  Gavare's eXperimental Emulator   --   GXemul 0.3.5  Gavare's eXperimental Emulator   --   GXemul 0.3.8
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4  Copyright (C) 2003-2005  Anders Gavare.  Copyright (C) 2003-2006  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 into native code), which is used on Alpha and i386
17  systems.)  hosts, or by traditional interpretation (very very slow, but works on any
18    host platform).
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20    ARM and PowerPC processors are emulated using a newer dynamic translation
21    system. Performance is somewhere between traditional interpretation and
22    recompilation into native code. However, the dynamic translation system
23    used in GXemul does NOT generate native code, and thus doesn't require
24    platform-specific back-ends. In plain English, this means that the
25    dyntrans system works on any host platform.
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28  Quick start  Quick start
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32  Unix-like systems. If not, then please mail me a bug report.  Unix-like systems. If not, then please mail me a bug report.
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34  If you are impatient, and want to try out running a guest operating system  If you are impatient, and want to try out running a guest operating system
35  inside GXemul, please read this:  doc/guestoses.html#netbsdinstall  inside GXemul, read this:  doc/guestoses.html#netbsdcatsinstall
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37  If you want to use GXemul for experimenting with code of your own,  If you want to use GXemul for experimenting with code of your own,
38  then I suggest you compile a Hello World program according to the tips  then I suggest you compile a Hello World program according to the tips

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