Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 03:23:47 06/16/02
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On June 15, 2002 at 07:36:24, Peter Berger wrote: >Hi Thorsten, > >thanks for your impressions about hardware differences, especially when it is >about the 68020, RISC or Tasc I am not familiar with. no problem. i am familiar with them because i had them or still have them. the 68000 and 68020 were not very fast related to todays machines. maybe they were as good as a 286 or a 386 but the 486 killed them. but you can of course reduce speed of the 50 mhz machine by going into the bios and knocking of the 2 caches. this should make a very slow machine out of your 486 :-)) >The somewhere around 4-6 speed difference factor is the best I could come up >with so far and Christophe doesn't disagree. i see. i don't have my 286 anymore :-)) otherwise i would lend it to you. you could download an emulator for atari ST and run e.g. PSION ST on the emulator. this would give a richard lang psion for atari ST from 1984 on your PC and you would be able to use it on your normal pc. the atari ST runs normally with 8 mhz as far as i remember and it has a 68000 CPU. the psion is a kind of amsterdam version of the lang program, running on a personal computer. is has very good graphics. on the emulator you can set the speed of the emulation to 8 mhz emulated mhz or to MAXIMUM, that means the speed the emulator can run on your pc. but for relation with 68000 times the 1:1 would be better. much for done for nothing. i do have those mephisto modules here. also the novag diamond 2 is a good opponent for the palm-tiger. now i know why i still have them. to test them against my palm :-))
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