Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!nikhefh!u13
From: u13@nikhefh.hep.nl (Rene van 't Veen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: About Atari's, Mac's, and IBM's
Message-ID: <455@nikhefh.hep.nl>
Date: 21 Apr 88 09:32:57 GMT
References: <5419@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <226500010@trsvax> <213@bdt.UUCP>
Reply-To: u13@nikhefh.hep.nl (Rene van 't Veen)
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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[ Lots of stuff 'bout 286 and 68000 raw CPU-power deleted]
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>But remember that it's pretty slow becuase you're emulating a hardware with
>software running on a 8Mhz 68000 CPU.  I think it's something like 50%-80%
>the speed of an old 4.77 Mhz IBM PC (which nobody uses anymore), and whole
>lot slower than an 8Mhz 8088.

Actually 0.33 "standard" IBM-PC (Benchmark Norton-SI)
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