Executor 2.0/executorv2.0.iso/pc/linux/extra/docs/maillist/text/archive.96/text0412.txt

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>>>>> "Eric" == emb121 (Eric Bennett) <[e-mail]> writes:
In article <4ebc1m$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (emb121 (Eric Bennett)) writes:


    Eric> In article <[e-mail]> Clifford
    Eric> T. Matthews <[e-mail]> writes:

    ctm>> We wrote Executor, a Macintosh emulator that allows PCs to run
    ctm>> much 68k Macintosh software, and it does so faster on entry
    ctm>> level Pentiums than any 68k based Macintosh Apple ever
    ctm>> released.

    Eric> Entry level meaning Pentium 75?  Any 68k Mac including the
    Eric> 840AV (40 mhz '040)?  Executor is pretty fast, but it's not
    Eric> this fast.

You are absolutely right.  I am absolutely wrong.

I retract the above claim, apologize for the mistake and won't ever
make that claim again.  I'm also bcc'ing this to all ARDI employees so
they will understand that I made this mistake and by doing so this
will prevent them from accidently repeating my incorrect comment.

I overlooked the 40 MHz 840AV when I thought up that sentence as a way
of illustrating Executor's speed.  Using scaled speedometer results
from SynPaper (ftp://ftp.ardi.com), Executor on a 75 MHz Pentium does
barely edge out 33 MHz 040 based Macs in strict integer computation,
but in the future I'll use a longer phrase and point people at our
demo (available from http://www.ardi.com) and at SynPaper.

It's a little tricky, since some people call what you, I and Motorola
call a 40 MHz CPU a 80 MHz CPU and to them, a 33 MHz becomes a 66 MHz
CPU.  At ARDI, we never use the inflated numbers (even though it makes
us look better), but when we say 25 MHz 68040, some people will think
we're talking about a theoretical 12.5 MHz CPU.  Argh.

Thank you for pointing my error out.

    Eric> -Eric Bennett ([e-mail])

--Cliff [Matthews]
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