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From: cs163afu@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU (Some call me...Tim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PC Ditto II -- speed?
Summary: No! Much better!
Message-ID: <98@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 3 May 89 08:12:06 GMT
References: <8905021217.AA08520@nh.cs.wm.edu>
Reply-To: cs163afu@sdcc10.ucsd.edu.UUCP (Some call me...Tim)
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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In article <8905021217.AA08520@nh.cs.wm.edu> fjmora@CS.WM.EDU (Fredric Mora) writes:
>In message dated 22 Apr 89 16:46:55 GMT, Ken Stailey writes:
>> How much faster is PC Ditto II than version I. Does anyone know the SI rating?
>The CPU-equivalent speed is said by Avant-Garde (THIS IS
>THE RIGHT SPELLING!!) to be around 5 MHz compared to a 8086.
>This gives an SI rating of more than 1.0. No info about disk speed,
>although it is supposedly much faster than version 1.

This is not what I heard.

At the Anaheim Atari fair, Avant-Garde was displaying PC Ditto II,
the hardware supported (NO processor, by the way, just hardware) IBM
emulator.

It has a Norton rating of 3.0, and an equivalent speed of 10Mhz.

According to the person at the fair, PC Ditto II is in the "AT"
class.

And they "should" be shipping within the next two months.

Drive speed?  I don't know.  It should be the same--there is no
difference between the ST and MSDOS disk format (or won't be any
difference after everyone has TOS 1.4).

ALSO:  It can boot from the hard disk--in fact, BOTH the ST AND PC
Ditto can boot from the hard disk--you get a choice.

And PC Ditto can use the hard disk without reformatting, as it's
already MSDOS compatible.

This is all I know or remember about it.

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Tim Mensch
Internet: tmensch@ucsd.edu