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In article <ericb.512.301F8F68@psu.edu>, ericb@psu.edu (Eric Bennett) wrote:

> In article <davis-0108951934350001@pppsb1.itg.ti.com>
davis@adrs1.dseg.ti.com (Tom L. Davis) writes:

> >If Apple's new emulator (on the 9500) can outperform all 040 Macs, why
> >can't Softwindows do the same relative to a 66 MHz 486DX2 (which I assume
> >is equivalent to a 33 MHz 040)?

> A 68040 @ 40 mhz is just a tad slower than a 486/66.  Also keep in mind that 
> we're talking about a BETA of SoftWindows 2.0, which could have some
debugging 
> code holding it back.  We'll have to wait until it's release to see how fast 
> it really is.

Well, the argument still holds. The 9500 in emulation is still quite a bit
faster than even a 040/40. If SpeedDoubler lives up to the hype then it
could show that even a little better is possible.

So even if a 486DX2/66 were 50% faster than an 040/40 (sounds like an
awfully safe margin) then I'd expect that some proper combination of
engineers from Apple, Insignia, Connectix could probably emulate close to
that speed.

-- 
Bob Cassidy
UC Irvine