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Received: from ftp.ardi.com (ftp.ardi.com [204.134.8.1]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA29794 for <executor@nacm.com>; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 08:13:47 -0800 Received: from ardi.com by ftp.ardi.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tMdWE-0007qFn; Mon, 4 Dec 95 09:13 MST Path: sloth.swcp.com!tesuque.cs.sandia.gov!ferrari.mst6.lanl.gov!newshost.lanl.gov!ncar!noao!math.arizona.edu!news.Arizona.EDU!news.Cerritos.edu!newshub.csu.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!hptemp1.cc.umr.edu!tfries From: tfries@rocket.cc.umr.edu (Todd Fries) Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor Subject: Re: Will executor run on a 286 Date: 2 Dec 1995 18:52:09 GMT Organization: UMR Missouri's Technological University Lines: 13 Message-ID: <49q78p$jgm@hptemp1.cc.umr.edu> References: <DIvGor.2F0@uns.bris.ac.uk> <49lipu$a0f@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca> <fisk-3011952255090001@tty22.maze.ppp.uab.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: rocket.cc.umr.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] To: executor@nacm.com X-MailNews-Gateway: From newsgroup comp.emulators.mac.executor Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk Gary Fisk (fisk@eyes.uab.edu) wrote: : I'd say that executor really needs at least a 486. I've experimented with : the executor demo on a 386. Tex-edit and Aldus Freehand (2.x?) are both : way too slow on the 386 to be really useful. It can't even begin to keep : up with my typing in Tex-edit. Freehand ran slower on the 386 than it did : on my ancient Mac Plus! However, both of these apps ran much better on a : 486. I'm using Linux in X and it is quite comfortbly keeping up at 40mghz on a 386...but 486's are always nice if you've got 'm.. -- <a href=mailto:tfries@umr.edu>Todd T. Fries</a> <a href=http://www.cs.umr.edu/~tfries/>My Homepage!</a>