Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!g15 From: G15@PSUVM.BITNET (John F. Gbruoski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: PC-Ditto speed Message-ID: <40365G15@PSUVM> Date: 25 Apr 88 18:07:47 GMT References: <116@avsd.UUCP> <20428@oliveb.olivetti.com> <4538@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Organization: The Pennsylvania State University - Computation Center Lines: 26 In article <4538@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner) says: > >[] > >I tried Word Perfect and Turbo C on PC-Ditto. Both are way too slow >to be useful, in my opinion. I expected WP to be OK since it is an >interactive program but it is rather slow on a real 8088 and about >4 or 5 times slower still in PC-Ditto. 20+ seconds to jump from one >end of a 30K file to another. Disgusting. > I agree. I recently had a chance to try a friend's copy of pc-ditto with WP. I was appalled by the speed (or, should I say, the *lack* of speed) of the emulation. This really surprised me since most magazine reviews (which I generally trust) of this product proclaimed 'How Great' it was. Personally, I find pc-ditto to be totally useless for doing any meaningful work. Considering the fact that a good pc-emulation system will run you about $400 ($80 for pc-ditto, $120 for upgrade to 1 megabyte ram, $200 for 5 1/4 drive with power supply, cable, etc), you'd be better-off spending $200 more for a cheap PC-clone. ----- ******************************************************************************* * John F. Gbruoski G15 @ PSUVM.BitNet * * UUCP: {akgua,allegra,cbosgd,ihnp4}!psuvax1!psuvm.bitnet!g15 * * * * "Omnia mutantur; omnia fluunt; quod fuimus aut sumus, cras non erimus."-Ovid* *******************************************************************************