>Current "state of the art" is to use a COTS x86 machine running
>linux as the "microcode engine" that implements the 36bit machine.
>It's quite a bit faster than the fastest that DEC ever offered.

I remember having a 386dx2/66 machine running Novell Unix, opening a DOS box 
and running a CP/M emulator, which indicated it was peaking at the 
equivalent of a z80 running at 13MHz on the speed test. That was faster than 
the fastest available real z80 chip, which was 12MHz IIRC. If I had been 
running DOS on the PC it would probably have reached a sustained 15MHz or 
more.

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