Speed of XGS: not really

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

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.

   XGS still needs some serious work to make it usable; Ian and a few
others on #appleiigs made a few tweaks that made it far more useful.
Not sure if/when those changes will be made back into the regular
source tree if at all. 

   My real GS still is better. That's all I care about.

Nathan Mates
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