Comment by anthk
2 months ago
It has very few RAM to emulate PC's/higher end Classic Macs. You understimate 90's computing. A Pentium 2@333MHZ or a P3 at 500 MHZ was a beast and an RP2350 can't do nil. Maybe some very early computers like the Amiga and the m68k Macs could be emulated under it.
You can play DivX movies under a Pentium II. And a Pentium III at 600 can run Icewm, modern dillo, TLS 1.3... with ease, even post into HN.
I don't underestimate 90s computing; I remember it? It sounds like you only remember the very tail end of it.
And I am, to be clear, talking about the RP2350's hypothetical successor, which is where I think Eben Upton will see his beloved Archimedes suitably emulated.
But FWIW, the current RP2350's PSRAM implementation can be up to two thirds as fast as RAM transfer was in a Mac IIfx — up to 40MB/sec — so the RP2350 can already emulate System 7 Macs with 4 megs of RAM.
https://adafruit-playground.com/u/jepler/pages/mac-emulator-...