Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!TECHUNIX.TECHNION.AC.IL!ravi From: ravi@TECHUNIX.TECHNION.AC.IL (avi rozen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations Subject: Re: IBM emulator Message-ID: Date: 26 May 91 12:37:07 GMT References: <1991May23.083822.10099@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 53 breemen@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl (E. van Breemen) writes: >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 AmaxII is even better than an original Mac plus (bigger screen and faster) :) >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 I agree that those programs don't work on amiga but there are some programs that perform pretty well (Pro-Page,excellence!,LightSpeedPascal). >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 I can't agree with you more, the prices of the Bridgeboard in Israel as high as a PC compatible. >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. My friend has been working on a same project as IBem for over a year now, he has a very good knowledge by now of the amiga and I hope afetr seeing the IBeM he'll start programing some usefull stuff. :) >Erwin. I think that the amiga community should work towards the following goals: 1. asking software companies to convert their programs to amiga, I think that public pressure will make those companies realize as byte did that among the amiga comunity there is a demand for serious software and that the amiga environment can support those companies demands. 2. work for creating standarts in the amiga world in terms of standart fonts format , standart structured drawing format similar to the iff standarts, I think that by this programmers will find greater support in developing packages for the amiga. Avi Rozen.