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Article #32071Re: About Atari's, Mac's, and IBM's
From: David Govett
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1988 16:40
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1988 16:40
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> >>>How well does it emulate IBMs? >>According to my friends, "Excellently!" I cannot judge because I do not have >>PC Ditto. > > > But remember that it's pretty slow becuase you're emulating a hardware with > software running on a 8Mhz 68000 CPU. I think it's something like 50%-80% > the speed of an old 4.77 Mhz IBM PC (which nobody uses anymore), and whole > lot slower than an 8Mhz 8088. We tested pc ditto here, and it has a Norton of index of .3, which means .3 x 4.77 MHz. Still, it's fast enough for most tasks and completely compatible so far.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!pyramid!octopus!avsd!govett From: govett@avsd.UUCP (David Govett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: About Atari's, Mac's, and IBM's Message-ID: <116@avsd.UUCP> Date: 21 Apr 88 16:40:40 GMT References: <213@bdt.UUCP> Organization: Ampex Advanced Technology Division, Redwood City, CA Lines: 13