From: derek@cgrg.ohio-state.edu (Dariusz Bolski)
Subject: Re: Macintosh emulation on Amiga
Organization: OSU Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 22:44:00 GMT

In article <Bvo99x.HI0@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> faheyr@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Bob Fahey) writes:
>Man, you have my sympathy if you are developing software on an emulator. I
>tried running Microsoft C 5.x on PC-Task, and all I can say about that is

I used both hardware and software emulators of PC. But as I said I was
testing what I wrote on a real one. It was at the time a 286AT was the
top machine available. Thus software was running on it quite acceptably.
Not like the software of today. That software didn't eat the machine yet.:)

>HA HA HA HA!!! NOT! 10 minutes to do a compilation of a trivial procedure
>is a bit extensive.

The last software projects I was working on PC had around 50000 lines.
It took more than 10 minutes for 386SX 16MHz to compile them.
Yes. I wasn't that prone of the PC at then because of that.

>I know. I have both IBEM and pc-task for the amiga. I still don't see where you
>are getting Quadra emulation from, though. Tell me the product that you think
>will emulate a quadra. Emplant? Not. AmaxII? Well, you would have a very
>quick emulation of a Mac SE or whatever, but that's a far cry from a Quadra.

I think (or hope :) Emplant is not a vaporware. 
Drew mentioned Quadra emulation at the end of the year.

>>>I'm sure there are some, but do you emulate because you want to, or because
>>>you HAVE to for lack of the real thing?
>
>>As of my knowledge they have to because of a lack...
>
>As is the point of an emulator: To get the job done. Emulating a Quadra is
>not my idea of a "lack", or squeaking by on the bare essentials. You are 
>talking about emulating a high-end machine.

I am sorry for not exact wording of mine. I just attempted to say what
you said without repeating the entire sentence (my English strikes again:)

I meant what you meant. If I had Quadra I wouldn't want to emulate it.
But I wouldn't buy it if I didn't have. I would settle with Amiga and
the emulator (if it finally is there ).
Computer itself is not everyting. You still need quite a lot of peripherals.
Going the Amiga way you can afford it.

My friends are best example of that.
One of them spent almost $10000 for Quadra 900 (at the time it came out).
+ two software packages.
Another one for same money has Amiga with 040 and 24bit board plus
650MB magneto optical drive + multiple software packages capable of more than
these two for Quadra.
The Quadra owner cries that she cannot afford a harddisk and the built-in
one is almost full. Yet for two years she didn't really do much.
The other one fills up gigabytes of space with graphics wandering how
much unexplored capabilities her software has. And is happy.
For the sake of compatibility with the other user on the file level this
one considers a Mac emulator. She still can afford it and do more than
the other can.
They both do computer graphics.

Is that convincing?

>Best luck to ya,
>bob

Best luck to you too,

Dariusz Bolski
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Dariusz Bolski     Ohio Supercomputer Center, IBM POWER Visualization System
Systems Programmer Ohio State University , Columbus U.S.
                   The Advanced Computing Center For The Arts And Design
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