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From: rbannon@batman.elee.CalPoly.EDU (Roy Bannon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Stellar 7 re-release
Summary: PCT doesn't use GS for display
Message-ID: <2770ed3e.5ad0@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 20 Dec 90 16:56:30 GMT
References: <26817.chatter.infoapple@pro-beagle> <3176.276fd18b@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Reply-To: rbannon@batman.elee.CalPoly.EDU (Roy Bannon)
Organization: Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
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In article <3176.276fd18b@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) writes:
>> that '386/33 though.
>
>How do you compare how fast the PC transporter is compared to your IIgs? Of 
>course it will look slow, just because it has to go through using the IIgs 
>for its display, which creates one hell of a bottleneck. You can't really 
>look at a computer and make speed comparisons.
>

Sorry, no.  When you install the PCT you have to put a display switcher board
between the gs the pct and the apple monitor.  When you launch the pct software
the switcher card detects a video signal on the pct and it automatically 
switches to displaying the ibm graphics.  What is emulated is anything that
has to go through the slots in the gs (like harddrive and modems and printers
..).  Any disk drives hooked directly to the pct also aren't emulated, they are
real time.

Roy
Rbannon@batman.elee.calpoly.edu