testbios and the system timer
Richard Smith
rsmith at bitworks.com
Thu Jun 3 15:11:00 CEST 2004
ron minnich wrote:
> OK, I finally read this in detail and I'm sorry for my noise on this
> subject.
>
> I think it would be useful to keep an 'emulated instruction count' in the
> emulator, and have a virtual timer that increments very X (pick a number)
> instructions. X can be constant across different architectures as we are
> somewhat divorced from time (it's an emulator).
>
> The emulated timer would increment every emulated instruction count ticks.
>
> Would this do it?
Yes. I think it would. Got any ideas on the implementation? I'm ready
to try an implement this.
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