Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!bu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!unido!math.fu-berlin.de!dww From: dww@math.fu-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: SoftPC Message-ID: Date: 2 Apr 91 10:23:18 GMT Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department) Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 26 Does anyone out there in HP-land really use the SoftPC? My professor was told he had to buy a HP, and then he asked if he could use his PC programs (a LOGO interpreter and some geometry programs he wrote in it) on the HP. Well, his friendly salesperson added in SoftPC and delivered the box. The person who had my job before me left the university after 2 weeks using the box - drove him crazy. Now I have the box and SoftPC running (Thanks to the Hotline folks, they really do help!) - but look at the times: manyflags on AT at 12 MHz : 0.9 sec manyflags on HP SoftPC/Hercules emulation : 12.4 sec That is impossibly slow! Does anyone have a) a real use for the SoftPC b) any idea haw to speed it up by an order of magnitude (we already added a couple of MB of memory) c) a LOGO compiler that runs directly under HP-UX? I'm scratching some of the PD stuff together, but none has worked yet. Thanks! -- Debora Weber-Wulff snail: FU Berlin, ZI Fachdidaktiken, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, W-1000 Berlin 33 email: weberwu@inf.fu-berlin.de, dww@math.fu-berlin.de