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

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From: Eric Bennett
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 19:15

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In article <3vlq7q$stc@lace.Colorado.EDU> Edmond <underwoe@Colorado.Edu> writes:

>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.

Actually, my understanding was that SoftWindows 2.0 _is_ supposed to run
Windows 95.  Their original target shipping date (for SoftWindows) was last 
December, but it has consistently slipped along with the Win95 release date 
(can't have a Win95 emulator running on the Mac before Win95 itself is 
done...).

If you have some info that proves this wrong, please tell me 
where you got it.  Thanks,

-Ericb@psu.edu

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 19:15:45 GMT
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