Reply to post: Been done before...

Emulating x86: Microsoft builds granny flat into Windows 10

Richard Cranium

Been done before...

...well kind of. In the late 80's the Acorn were selling an MSDOS emulator for the Archimedes, for which the first ARM chip was created. As you'd expect of an emulation in most use-cases it was a bit slower than PC but still pretty good and IIRC a few apps ran faster on ARM.

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