Title :
The design and development of a software emulator
Author_Institution :
Insignia Solutions Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA
fDate :
Feb. 27 1989-March 3 1989
Abstract :
The authors company has developed a complete emulation of an IBM PC entirely in software. The product (SoftPC) is capable of running virtually all software available for the IBM PC on non-Intel-based computers, including the MS-DOS operating system, without any modification. Using emulation techniques, excellent performance results have been achieved.<>
Keywords :
IBM computers; software packages; software portability; virtual machines; SoftPC; Application software; Emulation; Hardware; Operating systems; Personal communication networks; Power generation; Reduced instruction set computing; Software architecture; Software standards; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
COMPCON Spring '89. Thirty-Fourth IEEE Computer Society International Conference: Intellectual Leverage, Digest of Papers.
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-1909-0
DOI :
10.1109/CMPCON.1989.301943
