27 Jan
2017
27 Jan
'17
4:15 a.m.
On 24 January 2017 at 18:46, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. <jecel at merlintec.com> wrote:
This allowed us to figure out that an 8 MHz ARM2 would
be able to
run PC programs at nearly the speed of a 4.77 MHz 8088. Though there
were much faster PCs at the time, the original configuration was still
being sold and was popular enough that this would have been considered
usable.
It was usable enough that Acorn sold a PC Emulator for the Acorn
A305/A310 -- the original, first-series Archimedes with 8MHz ARM2
chips.
E.g.
http://web.archive.org/web/20021213050437/www.maxandanna.pwp.blueyonder.co.…
I used it on my A310, in 1988/1989, to do real work in QuickBasic 3.0,
brought home from the office.
It ran at something around 2-3MHz as equivalent to an original 8088
PC, but with a much faster screen and hard disk, so overall
performance was good and quite usable for MS-DOS stuff.
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