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From: kevind@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Kevin Draz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: How good is SoftPC emulation?
Message-ID: <8193@pogo.WV.TEK.COM>
Date: 20 Nov 89 23:28:09 GMT
References: <5768@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: kevind@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Kevin Draz)
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In article <5768@lindy.Stanford.EDU> romeo@lindy.UUCP (Patrick Goebel) writes:
>Has anyone had experience with Insignia's SoftPC?  I imagine it must
>run fairly slowly; i.e., somewhere on the order of the original 8086
>PC.  Then again, presumably the speed would depend on the machine
>doing the emulation -- for example, it should run faster on an SE/30
>than on an SE.  Is this true?
>
>Curious,
>patrick--romeo@lindy.Stanford.EDU
I run SoftPC on my IIcx at home - it goes at about 1.7 x PC XT speeds for
processing, about 20x XT for Data IO to the virtual "disk".  It doesn't run
on an SE, only 020 or 030 boxes.



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