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From: hojo@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (HC Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PC-Ditto (I) on TT *re-post*
Summary: slow is relative
Keywords: PC-Ditto, PCD, IBM, emulator, TT
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.172621.3710@cbfsb.att.com>
Date: 19 Feb 91 17:26:21 GMT
References: <1991Feb15.154244.25573@digi.lonestar.org> <2303@cybaswan.UUCP>
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In article <2303@cybaswan.UUCP>, iiitih@cybaswan.UUCP (Ivan Izikowitz) writes:
> In article <1991Feb15.154244.25573@digi.lonestar.org> rgoseweh@digi.lonestar.org (Roy Gosewehr) writes:
> >
> >Does anyone know if PC-Ditto (the software emulator) works on the TT?
> 
> I had no idea that there was a purely software PC emulator for the ST. I
> have an STe and would love such a facility - how much does it cost and
> is it unbearably slow?
> 
>    Ivan Hoe

PC Ditto I is SLOW.  But for < $79 its also cheap.  
While the Norton rating was like 0.2, it works very well.

Three examples:

1. My wife took a course on using MultiMate.  She had no problem running
	it on PC-Ditto.  Data entry is no problem; the typing interface 
	keeps up nicely.  However, she learned quickly to not use the spell
	checker -- its so cycle intensive it never finished a document before
	she gave up on it.

2. I hacked PC-Ditto to interface to the Atari CD-ROM.  I have no problem 
	extracting files using the MS/DOS programs that are needed to
	do that.  Its not fast, but it works.

3. Several times I've run the Norton utilities to recover files that I had
	inadvertently removed under TOS.  Works great.

Unfortunately, the producer of PC-Ditto is out of business, but you may find 
copies still for sale new.  And Used.


Howard Johnson
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