Re: RUNPRO ever updated?

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <3948j3$ldf@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
gulstad william olaf <gulstad@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>Lately I've been working on a good, configureable II+/IIe emulator for the
>'486.  I probably won't go back to doing much direct programming on the IIgs.
>The speed of the '486 is pretty addictive.

   At 'work', I have access to a pretty loaded workstation: Silicon
Graphics Indigo2, 150Mhz R4400 processor, 288MB ram, 2.1 GB swap,
and connected to a Galileo realtime video i/o system. Several thousand
times more capable than my GS in pretty much any hardware spec (the
SGI can do realtime i/o to the screen, but I don't think it can do
overlay like my VOC, _yet), but it doesn't have what matters most:
I like my GS more.

   I still like my GS more. It all depends on what you want to do with
your computer. If I wanted to do some serious number crunching, I'd
use the SGI. If I want to poke around, have fun programming, the GS
is by far the best.

   Problem is, school is eating 100% of my time, and I can't really
do any programming on either, unless it's necessary (or I'm being
paid for it)... Argh; the prices one pays for pursuing a GPA rather
than the GS, unlike others.

Nathan Mates
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