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From: wolf@csclea.ncsu.edu (Thomas Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PC-Ditto speed
Message-ID: <1733@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 88 07:25:06 GMT
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Everyone has been complaining about PC-ditto speed.  Perhaps, all this software
emulator (and one should realize that software emulation IS slow) needs is
the accelerator board from Megabyte :-)  If this 16mhz board is as close to
completion as it seems (from rumours), pc-ditto ought to be sped up by a notch
or two (and for only approx $195 -- the cost of the board).  Also, I'm sure
that the next version of pc-ditto will be a little speedier than its prede-
cessor.  If used in combination, I could imagine speeds in excess of a PC!
(Yeah, imagine that -- an ST going at the speed of an IBeMediocre PC :-)

You'll never catch me buying this accelerator board to emulate a PC more
swiftly -- I'll buy it to run ST software (compilers) faster :-)

Tom Wolf


Tom Wolf
ARPA (I think): tw@cscosl.ncsu.edu
          or  wolf@csclea.ncsu.edu