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- Path: sparky!uunet!world!jbailey
- From: jbailey@world.std.com (jim bailey)
- Subject: Re: Soft_PC. How compatible is it?
- Message-ID: <BzFr6K.s9@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Dec14.002308.4927@massey.ac.nz> <29600@castle.ed.ac.uk> <8138@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec16.193817.997@sc2a.unige.ch>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 03:32:44 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- kanala@sc2a.unige.ch writes:
-
- >>>
- >>>>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
-
- I don't think SoftAT supports extended memory, just expanded memory. It
- traps out if any direct accesses are made above 1MB. This needs to
- be fixed in the latest Windows compatible version or I can't use it.
-