Re: [off-topic] Fully virtualisable CPUs

Herbert Xu (herbert@greathan.apana.org.au)
Tue, 10 Sep 1996 21:45:18 +1000


ulmo@q.net wrote:
>
> It seems to me trivial to have a little virtualisable module which
> simply picked up an instruction, examined it for whether it was trying
> to get a report on CPU state, and then recoded the instructions to do
> the CPU state manually, and at the end of the code piece jump back
> into the little just-in-time-interpreting-reassembler for the next
> instruction.

Apparently this is what Boch (sp?) is all about. There's an article
in the LJ about it.

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