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Interesting blog posts (it and the preceding one). It seems that reliably emulating the x86 architecture is made even harder by a few features not found in other popular architectures, like an extra level of indirection on memory access (segment registers and the corresponding segment overrides) and most instructions having a memory-accessing variant (instead of limiting memory access to separate "load" and "store" instructions, plus a few specialized atomic RMW instructions).