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Article #228Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Edmond
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 18:02
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 18:02
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cirby@news.gate.net (Chad Irby) wrote: >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? > >-- > >Chad Irby / My greatest fear: that future generations will, >cirby@gate.net / for some reason, refer to me as an "optimist." It will not run on a PowerMac. SoftWindows is a software package that Insignia bought the rights to make from MS. They just completed the Enhanced 386 version which can do protected mode memory mapping. They do not have a license to do Windows '95 and it would be very difficult for them to do seeing as how they struggled with Windows 3.1. If MS is still debugging the heck out of Windows '95, don't expect SoftWindows to be a Windows '95 product anytime. Mac users are better off waiting for CHRP and loading NT 4.0 or Cairo. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edmond Underwood Computing & Network Services (University of Colorado) E-mail: underwoe@Colorado.Edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!netsrv1.cmdl.noaa.gov!boulder!usenet From: Edmond <underwoe@Colorado.Edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: 1 Aug 1995 18:02:34 GMT Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder Message-ID: <3vlq7q$stc@lace.Colorado.EDU> References: <3vli5j$1ha0@navajo.gate.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: tele-anx0105.colorado.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 32bit)