At 12:26 AM -0700 7/23/00, somebody wrote: >If al[l] it's going to do is run as fast as a 68040 anyway, why don't you just >buy a 190c or a 5300ce and save yourself a ton of money? The original quotation that spawned this was From: William Limbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >Says you need a 75-Mhz Pentium processor to emulate a 68030. Faster to >emulate a 68040. So, if you have something significantly faster than a 75 MHz Pentium, you might find that the 68040 emulation runs slightly faster than a Quadra 900... In fact, I'm currently running 8.1 under Basilisk on my Vaio SR7K (3 lbs., 600 MHz PIII, giving MacOS 90mb). I haven't bothered much with benchmarking, but a lot of stuff is noticeably faster than my G3/240 2400 -- especially networking, basic video, and disk. Speedometer rates math as 9x a Quadra... Haven't done a lot in Photoshop, but it's not deadly slow... Basilisk is freeware; http://gamma.nic.fi/~lpesonen/BasiliskII/ for Windoze. I tried SoftMac and Fusion demos; each gave me hours of grief. Basilisk installed (with Ethernet networking and other features not available in SoftMac/Fusion) and was running in under an hour, including copying a bunch of my files. PPC? Well, would be nice. I haven't heard any stories of people using PPC under SoftMac yet, though; the Fusion are working on iFusion; I'll just have to keep searching for FAT binaries of stuff until then! -Ken� Kenneth Thomas Co-Founder, Chief Architect Retrieva.com ---------- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.shtml> Be sure to visit Mac2400! <http://www.sineware.com/mac2400> XRouter | Share your DSL or cable modem between multiple computers! Dr. Bott | Now $199.99 <http://www.drbott.com/prod/MIH120.html> PowerBook Guy is | Click here! Everything PowerBook! | http://www.powerbookguy.com Midwest Mac Parts ][ <http://www.midwestmac.com> After-market parts for Macs. ][ 888-356-1104 ][ MacResQ Specials: LaCie SCSI CDR From $99! PowerBook 3400/200 Only $879! Norton AntiVirus 6 Only $19! We Stock PARTS! <http://www.macresq.com>
