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From: ddfr@tank.uchicago.edu (david director friedman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: SoftPC - Any Comments
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Date: 5 Jun 90 03:07:12 GMT
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My experience with SoftPC is less favorable. Without the EGA option
it ran about 1/2 to 1/3 as fast as a stock PC (4.77 MHz) on my
accelerated SE (16 MHz Radius 020+coprocessor), judging by small
programs written in QuickBasic. With the EGA it ran faster than the
stock PC on most tests, and got 2-3 as a Norton rating. On the other
hand, when I tried to run a program of mine that works on a PC (in
Quick Basic) one part of the program was slowed down by a factor of
perhaps ten to a hundred (impression--I did not bother to time it,
but in effect the program stopped). Since I wanted the machine for
programming, I decided that having random things work much slower
than on the target machine was not acceptable, and bought a Toshiba
1000SE to do my programming on (and as a portable). A very pretty
machine, incidentally.

David Friedman