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From: rgoseweh@digi.lonestar.org (Roy Gosewehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PC emulators for the ST
Summary: Another Opinion on PC-Ditto
Keywords: PC Emulators, PC-Ditto
Message-ID: <1355@digi.lonestar.org>
Date: 13 Dec 90 14:52:14 GMT
References: <15760001@hpqtdla.sqf.hp.com> <1990Dec11.113430.9394@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>
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In article <1990Dec11.113430.9394@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> cadp15@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:
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>DO NOT go for PC Ditto (the software version, not PC Ditto II which I've never
>tried) as it is terminally slow...  The fastest its ever reached was a Norton
>of 0.3 - about one third the speed of a 4.77 MHz IBM PC, the slowest it ever
>reached was a Norton of 0.0...  It is fine if all you want to do is a run a
>few programs now and again, but otherwise is totally useless.

"The Sorcerer" is right in respect to CAD software -- you would not be
able to live with PC-Ditto (the software emulator) as it would be waaay
too slow for that type of application.

However, for other programs such as the Quicken financial package,
PC-Ditto (while not blazingly fast) gives acceptable performance IMHO.
The other neat things about 'Ditto are that it is CHEAP and SOLID.  I
have yet to to find a non-game IBM program that won't run under it 
including SuperProject Expert and ABT's Project Workbench (both of which
retail at or over $1000).  I have even run GEM/3 desktop (slowly) but
did have some trouble getting the mouse to operate correctly.  (In this
case it appeared that the mouse could not be "sampled" often enough to
provide a "real-time" response to the user.)

R.C.G.