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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:46:56 -0400
- From: Stefan Monnier <sm86+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: FTP Sites?
- In-Reply-To: <Z72wqB4w164w@tcpbbs.pcn.org>
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.atari.st: 11-Sep-92 Re: FTP Sites? Joseph
- Adato@tcpbbs.pcn. (670)
-
- > > By and large, all IBM emulators for the Atari run relatively slowly since
- > > the 680x0 processor must do all the 80x86 translations. That's a lot of
- > > work, indeed. About the best speed you could hope for is that of an 8MHz
- > > 80286 AT class machine. Of course, a faster Atari will help but with the
-
- > Not so!!! AT-Speed C16 (an internal IBM emulator) is running inside my
- > MegaST 4 at 12.9 Mhz. There are speed test one can run to find oute
- > exactly how fact their system is running. There is also a 386
- > emulator available for the ST. Since AT-Speed C16 is a 286 emulator I
- > would expect the 386 emulator (also made by the people who make AT-Speed)
- > runs even faster.
-
- Just note that the original information was about SOFTWARE
- emulators !
- In order for them to run at 8Mhz 286 they can't be just interpreters
- but real '286-assembler'-compilers (as will be the Mac-on-a-PowerPC
- emulator). And even in this case, getting the same kind of speed as
- the one of the 68000 8Mhz (that is *mz 286) is almost impossible !
-
- Of course, using an other processor permits to go much faster
- (and much easier) !
-
- Stefan Monnier
-
-