Well, every free emulator I know of is written in a portable language (Bochs, for instance, which is probably the most ready for mainstream use, is written in c++), which means that it's terribly slow.
That may not be an issue... the OP said it was for occasional use only.
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If thats the case I stand corrected. But I would still be greatly concerned about the speed of running VPC 6 on a PCI PowerMac.
If you're worried about the speed of VPC 6 on a PCI PowerMac, then you wouldn't want to know about the speed of Bochs on a PCI PowerMac. We're talking a minimum of an order of magnitude of difference in speed between the two.
I've always found emulation interesting (I used to run PC Conqueror on my Sinclair QL which emulated an 8086 running around 1/8 the speed of a real PC), and I've played a fair bit with Bochs, VPC, SoftWindows (but not a terribly modern copy), SheepShaver, ShapeShifter (Mac OS on an m68060 is pretty nice), and so on. While one day we'll all have hardware that can emulate nearly anything else reasonably quickly, it's not now yet.
I just bought a dual 200 MHz 604e CPU card to use to test NetBSD 2.0's SMP, so perhaps I'll put Bochs on it just for fun. Anybody got any DOS benchmarks? I don't think I'll have the patience to install Windows...
John Klos
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