Re: Speed of XGS: not really

[mmunz@inconnect.com (Mark Munz)]

In article <58huvq$eri@darla.visi.com>, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:

>In article <58hskm$i9u@bashir.peak.org>,
>Brian Ballweber <ballweb@PEAK.ORG> wrote:
>>Ian Schmidt (irsman@iag.net) wrote:
>>: FWIW, I get around 2.5 MHz on my Pentium 133 running Linux 2.0.26.  
>
>>Out of curiosity, this seems an ideal new way to approach the cross
>>development angle.
>
>   Normally, people go with cross-ment systems because they're faster.
>I'd say that my Zip 9/32 system is way faster than an emulated 2.5Mhz
>GS.  And no, I'm not about to go get a PPro/200 or so just to get
>7-8Mhz. Only college kiddies would generally have access to
>ultrasparcs and such that are just sitting idle all the time.
[snip]

Cross-development works best if you are using tools native to the
environment - ie. If you have a Macintosh, you can use the 65186 assembler
to compile Apple II source into object and then run them on your Apple II
emulator on the Mac. That would be faster. But using the host machine to
emulate development tools won't work well.

Just my two cents.

Mark Munz