[Coco] Another drive question

[David Hazelton]

John E. Malmberg wrote:
> KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
> 
>> In a message dated 12/7/03 6:02:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>> wb8tyw at qsl.net writes:
> 
> 
>>> There is a native version of MESS for LINUX.  The Micrsoft Windows 
>>> version is a port of the LINUX version using the Cygwin LINUX support 
>>> utilities and libraries.
>>
>>
>> Someone reported that Linux MESS is very slow.  But from what you say, 
>> the Windows should be even slower!  Maybe it's just that Windows 
>> typically is run on newer, faster PCs, so folks don't notice.
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> The problem might be in the X-11 interface, and it might depend on what 
> graphics options are present.
> 
> 
> I have no idea of how easy or hard it will be.
> 
> -John
> wb8tyw at qsl.net
> Personal Opinion Only


John~

	My first linux box was a 66mhz 486, 64mb, 4GB SCSI drives.  It was 
running Mandrake 7.1, It ran fine as a Samba/Netatalk server, but 
X-Windows and GNOME killed it.  I wouldn't even try XMESS on it.  I 
would use Jeff's Emulator under DOS if I had a 486 Laptop....Oh I do, 
pretty much same situation, No CD, USB, Joystick port.  Runs Pen-based 
Windows 3.1/Windows 95....How can I make a Pen-Based Coco?

~David Hazelton