[Coco] Re: Another drive question

[Richard E. Crislip]

Hello Theodore

You are right of course. But I decided to chime in to say that I did use
Jeff's emulator on just that kind of a system. It was called a Bridgeboard
(a PC on a card that fitted into an Amiga). It had a 50hz 486 and I ran
Jeff's emulator which seemed to run at pretty close to the actual CoCo
speed. I even was able to print, but THAT took forever to finish. I only
did that once 8-)

On 12/09/03, Theodore Evans wrote:
> 
> On Dec 8, 2003, at 6:02 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> 
>> I do not have any personal experience to say one way or another.  It 
>> seems to me that a 50 Mhz machine should have enough horsepower to 
>> emulate a 1.68 Mhz machine.
> 
> When you think about this take into consideration that this 1.78 MHz 
> CPU has a performance level between that of a 8 MHz 8086 and a 12 MHz 
> 80286.  Add to that that you are not merely emulating the CPU, but the 
> rest of the system.  Remember that clock speed is a very very poor 
> indicator of processing power.  In any case a 50 MHz 80486 is probably 
> marginal for Emulating a CoCo on a PC unless your emulator is using JIT 
> methods.
> 
> 
Regards
-- 
Cruisen                                                      _|_
              on AutoPilot with an Amiga   ---o-( )-o---   and a CoCo
 
                                             Richard