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From: michael@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com (Michael Bodine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: Re: Emulating other computers on 88K's
Message-ID: <47041@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com>
Date: 5 Oct 90 21:58:40 GMT
References: <1990Oct3.095041.9295@canterbury.ac.nz>
Reply-To: michael@chg.mcd.mot.com (Michael Bodine)
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer, Schaumburg, IL
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phys169@canterbury.ac.nz writes:
> What is available in the way of emulator programs for 88K machines, to mimic a
> PC/AT, or any other computer? (e.g. NOVA II :-)
The Phoenix Technologies and Insignia products mentioned in other postings are
both available.  I've had experience with the SoftPC on both the Macintosh and
Motorola 88K systems.  On a dedicated system (like the Mac or with a single
user on a unix system) performance is acceptable.  However, such emulations
are resource hogs, gobbling lots of cpu cycles, memory, swapping space, 
network packets, etc., etc.  I would suspect that if you want to take a large
group of knowledgable and dedicated PC users and put them all on a unix machine
to run nothing but emulated PC packages, none of those users will come to your
funeral, which will happen almost immediately!  If, on the other hand, you
want to utilize the 88K machines resources and make the PC emulation available
for occasional use, that would be quite acceptable.  Most Motorola Computer 
Group sales offices have MPC or Delta series computers available for 
demonstration;  you can go in and see for yourself what it looks like by 
running multiple copies of the SoftPC emulation.
-- 
[  Michael Bodine, michael@chg.mcd.mot.com, Dial: (708) 576-7840, FAX: x8875  ]
[  Motorola MCD; Loc IL38; 1100 Woodfield; Suite 334;  Schaumburg, Il  60173  ]