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From: breemen@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl (E. van Breemen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: IBM emulator
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Date: 23 May 91 08:38:22 GMT
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Last time I read about an IBM emulator which had a speed of 10% of a
4.77 Mhz IBM. In my opinion a 4.77 Mhz IBM is very slow, so how can
people work with a .477 Mhz IBM? All this talk about emulating other
computers is stupid, you never use them. The first reason
why you will use such an emulator is to run software which isn't on
the Amiga (like PageMaker, WordPerfect 5.5 or Turbo Pascal 6.0). The
speed of these packages, if they work, is to slow to be really usefull.
Second you use an emulator if you can't buy the original computer. But
that means that you don't have money: the packages you want to run have
to be copied (piracy). For example, it is better to buy an IBM 80386 clone
(25 Mhz, 4MB, XGA, 40Mb harddisk) for $2000. This machine is more than
16 times faster as a 4.77 Mhz IBM (faster as an A3000?). For twice the
price of a (good and complete!) emulator you can most times buy the original
computer. I think it is a little arrogant to think that an Amiga can emulate
any computer. The programmers can better spend their efforts on programming
packages like PageMaker, Ventura, WordPerfect, Oracle, Dbase IV than waist
their time with emulators. 

Erwin.