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Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Chad Irby
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 15:44
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Jeff Medcalf (214) 280-5970 IBM SDO (medcalf@ppc5.svo.dfw.ibm.com) wrote:

: That's pretty funny, considering that Win95 won't *run* on PPC systems.

Strangely enough, Windows 95 *will* run on a PPC Mac with SoftWindows.  
With a reasonably fast Mac, you can get it up to fast 386/slow 486 speeds.

Weird, eh?

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Chad Irby           /    My greatest fear: that future generations will,
cirby@gate.net     /      for some reason, refer to me as an "optimist."
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
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