Subj : Re: TheA1200
To   : Mortar M.
From : tenser
Date : Tue Dec 09 2025 10:22:15

On 06 Dec 2025 at 02:04p, Mortar M. pondered and said...
 
 MM>   Re: Re: TheA1200
 MM>   By: Gods69 to Nightfox on Thu Dec 04 2025 22:14:51
 MM> 
 MM>  > All use emulation now, in software or hardware (FPGA).
 MM> 
 MM> FPGA is not emulation.

Of course it is.  None of these machines, when they were still
being manufactured, shipped with a soft core on an FPGA.  They
shipped with regular, run-of-the-mill 68k series CPUs in
silicon.

FPGAs are programmed with a bitstream that makes them do, well,
whatever the bitstream is programmed to do; in this case,
perhaps, implement the core of an MC68k CPU.

Because the FPGA itself is a hardware device that provides
programmable logic, and not a general-purpose CPU that's running
a program compiled to that CPU's ISA that is emulating another
machine, I can see how one might not consider them "emulation"
in the same category as a software emulator.  But this is, at
best, arguing semantics.

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