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1  Gavare's eXperimental Emulator   --   GXemul 0.4.1  Gavare's eXperimental Emulator   --   GXemul 0.4.4
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4  Copyright (C) 2003-2006  Anders Gavare.  Copyright (C) 2003-2007  Anders Gavare.
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7  Overview  --  What is GXemul?  Overview  --  What is GXemul?
# Line 12  emulation modes are available. In some m Line 12  emulation modes are available. In some m
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  Processors (ARM, MIPS, PowerPC) are emulated using a kind of dynamic  Processors (ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, SuperH) are emulated using dynamic
16  translation system. Performance is somewhere between traditional  translation. Unlike some other dynamically translating emulators, GXemul
17  interpretation and recompilation into native code. However, the dynamic  does not need to generate native code, only a "runnable intermediate
18  translation system used in GXemul does not (currently) generate native  representation", and will thus run on any host architecture.
19  code, and thus does not require platform-specific back-ends. In plain  
20  English, this means that the dyntrans system works on any host platform.  The documentation lists the machines and guest operating systems that can
21    be regarded as "working" in GXemul. The best working guest operating
22    systems are probably NetBSD/pmax and NetBSD/cats.
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24  Possible uses of the emulator include:  Possible uses of the emulator include:
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