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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:26:42 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] I/O load crashes Qemu
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On Jun 13, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Bakul Shah wrote:

> IMHO a virtualizable processor is the necessary first step as


And don't forget the cost of a virtualizer v. the cost of actual
hardware. Verilog is free, but the device to make it is not. Start
simple:

	void
	main(int, char *[])
	{
		while(readbyte()){
			parseinst();
			doinst();
		}
		exits(nerrs ? "error" : 0);
	}