Exercises 5.19 Write a simulator for 8086 on DEC3100, Macintosh, or SUN Sparc. If this number is well modeled, we will better understand the effect of MIPS in increasing throughput when machines have lots of disks. Raw vs. file overhead. Cost of DMA for cache invalidation and memory bus utilization. Cycle cost of optimizations such as buffer cache management and seek optimizations.
Instruction counts on different machines.
The effect of different disk controllers. Most work could be done with trace and editing tricks. You can work alone or as a group of two.