Chris was saying..
> Not really. My 333Mhz Celeron notebook is pretty reasonable emulating an
> Amiga under UAE (I use this at home..), I'm quite happy. A 550Mhz P-III must
> be more than useful.
Depends what you call "reasonable". I seem to recall something along
the lines of a P233 getting to about "slow 030" speeds, which is
quite impressive and certainly useable, but its a long way off the
sort of performance you need to persuade people to sell thier real
Amiga and accept an emulation, particularly if they've already bought
lots of go-faster hardware.
I'm not making issue of this just to be annoying (plus its off-topic
now, so I'll give it up...) its just that emulation is one of the only
ways the new Amiga will sell anything. Thats right, *anything*. Nobody
will buy a computer which has no software when they have perfectly
adequate machines now. BUT if a decent emulation is made for existing
software it might just persuade people to buy the things until real
programs comes out. At that, I can't see PC users going for it.. :(
> arguments sake), this would be fast 040 speeds, or more...which would be
> faster than what most Amiga users have now ;)
Hmmm.. Maybe. For those who have a faster machine its not very
promising.
I don't doubt the emulation *could* be done, and fast. The point was
the processor-independence and retargetability thing. This pretty
much puts stuff like dynamic recompilation and direct screen memory
access out of practicality. Without those, or other clever
programming tricks, this type of program runs very slowly. Mind you,
you're the one with the inside information :) If the new Amiga comes
out and emulates the Classic at a speed of a 100MHz 060, you can say
"I told you so" as many times as you want :) I'll be on the phone
ordering one..
> > itself. (Rather like a PC at the moment - Word 7 runs just as slowly
> > on a P3 as Word4 did on a 486..)
>
> it does? Not here. I wouldn't class it as 'slow'. Ok Windows might be
> bloated and about 30% slower than a Linux machine, on the same processor,
> running the same/similar software, but a 550Mhz P-III ain't 'slow' ;)
Ok, poor choice of phrase... I wasn't referring to the speed of the
machine relative to another type of computer, I was referring to the
way that the new version of the software *requires* a new fast machine
to give the same productivity throughput as the old. Rather than
having the new hardware blow your socks off, its simply there because
its required before the software is useful.
Anyway, it might have huge clock speeds, lots of ram, 100MHz
backplane, AGP, etc etc, but when windows gets into its "I'm gonna
swap everything to the harddisk" mode you have about 1Kb/sec memory
access speed and it all goes down the pan.. :-) And I've seen that
happen regularly on 64Mb+ machines. :-/
Regards,
Ian
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