>Yet, DEC seems to have done it quite successfully, with their MIPS ->
>Alpha converter, and their new x86 -> Alpha converter (for NT).  In my
>experience, the MIPS/DECstation -> Alpha converter worked very well
>(never used the other one).  How is that they were able to be so
>successful with binary conversion?

>From recollection of a CACM article about this (about 2-3 years ago)... The 
translated binaries also incorporated a translator to translate code 
on-the-fly, for original code that was missed in the original translation 
stage. I can dig out the reference if you want it.


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