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- Subject: Re: Soft_PC. How compatible is it?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.193817.997@sc2a.unige.ch>
- From: kanala@sc2a.unige.ch
- Date: 16 Dec 92 19:38:17 +0200
- References: <1992Dec14.002308.4927@massey.ac.nz> <29600@castle.ed.ac.uk> <8138@lib.tmc.edu>
- Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
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- >>
- >>>Soft-PC was mentioned a number of times. Although it's likely to be slow,
- >>>just how compatible is it?
- >>
- >>100%.
- >>
- >>>Do any users of Soft-PC have any comments?
- >>
- >>OK, I'm not a user I work for Insignia. But the emulation is solid.
- >
- > Not true. An Apple systems engineer said that the low-level disk editing
- > routine in Norton Utilities (the PC version) became confused when it saw raw
- > Macintosh disks.
- >
- > So make that 99.9999%.
-
- About a year ago, I worked for a company where I have used SoftPC and SoftAT
- on a Mac II, then on a Mac II fx. On the fx, the Norton benchmark was about
- 8.6 to 8.8 (1=PC XT), and the emulation in version 2.3 was solid. It ran all
- the programs I have tried, even programs I wrote in dark ages on a IBM AT
- (Ryan-McFarlan Fortran, MS Fortran).
- However, it may have problems with some MS-DOS development environments
- like Borland Turbo Pascal when attempting to write directly to screen pixels
- and such wild things.
- Otherwise, the emulation is splendid, it has Extended Memory, can run Windows,
- and even emulates the kch-kch IBM startup sound for nostalgic users...
-
- Roman Kanala, COMIN, University of Geneva, Switzerland, kanala@sc2a.unige.ch
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