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From: ifarqhar@mqccsunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SoftPC for the Amiga 3000
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Date: 11 Sep 90 13:07:18 GMT
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In article <395@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>Reminds me of our game with Wordstar instead of Basic-80. It took
>5 minutes for the first character to appear on the screen, We never
>got to the point of typing in a character ourselves, don't know if
>we simply should have waited another hour...

Hmm, not my experience.  When I tried WS4, it was almost usable.  Also,
as WordStar is quite customisable, and is heavily delayed (this being
changable in WSCHANGE - WordStar is still the most customisable WP
around on *any* machine).  By removing the delays, it could be quite
fast.

I actually ran Norton's SI on the Transformer program (on a 512K A1000).
It reported a Processor Rating of 0.2 (as opposed to 1.0 for a 4.77M
XT), and a 80286 CPU.

Even so, if I were to write an emulator, I would like the virtual
machine that the 68030 can provide.  It might even be possible to
emulate a slow AT (including hardware), or even *gasp* a C64.  I find
this amusing: a 32 bit Virtual machine running at 25MHz simulating a 8
bit 1 MHz home computer....

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