Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola

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From: Colin Smith
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 08:39

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Max Bell (mbell@atheria.europa.com) wrote:
: Insignia Solution's SoftWindows product provides complete emulation of an
: 80x86 based personal computer in software.  The latest version emulates the
: 486 while the previous version emulated the 286.  As has been referred to in
: previous posts, the quality of this emulation is such that Windows/95 runs
: within the 486 version.  Some programs provided with the Insignia installed
: copy of Windows require access to Microsoft software layers, but SoftWindows
: itself is an entirely separate entity from Windows.  Personally, I think they
: should have kept the more descriptive name of SoftPC.  I'm looking forward to
: the release of the 486 version for the Digital UNIX environment.

Sounds like dosemu to me! It can run Windows 3.1 now.
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|INFINITELY higher than anything sold by Micro$oft!            |
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NOTE:-This is my Opinion and not necessarily the opinion of
ANYONE else, especially not my employer!

Colin Smith.
colins@mojo.europe.dg.com

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From: colins@mojo.europe.dg.com (Colin Smith)
Subject: Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 08:39:49 GMT
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