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Re: Can Quix save Apple?
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> In article <ufpwc7p7mx.fsf@ftp.ardi.com>
> Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com> writes:
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> > We wrote Executor, a Macintosh emulator that allows PCs to run much
> > 68k Macintosh software, and it does so faster on entry level Pentiums
> > than any 68k based Macintosh Apple ever released.
>
> Entry level meaning Pentium 75? Any 68k Mac including the 840AV (40
> mhz '040)? Executor is pretty fast, but it's not this fast.
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> -Eric Bennett (ericb@pobox.com)
>
> Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
> -Robert Benchley
>
Actually for certain CPU intensive integer computations, E/L on a P90
runs about as fast as my 840AV, especially the second time around (unless
there's a swap). OTOH FPU intensive stuff does not, when recompiled for SANE.