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Article #235Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Lawson English
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 19:25
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 19:25
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Chad Irby (cirby@news.gate.net) 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?
ON a 9500/132, the speed of SoftWIndows 2.0 beta running Windows 95 Gold is
said to rival that of an 80486DX2 33 [sic] system.
Since SoftWIndows was *optimized* so that the emulator would be bypassed
for critical calls like GDI stuff, and since the beta system of 2.0 probably
isn't optimized for all WIndows 95 calls, this is quite an interesting
datum, IMHO.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.primenet.com!english From: english@primenet.com (Lawson English) 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 19:25:43 GMT Organization: Primenet (602)395-1010 Message-ID: <3vlv3n$8o0@nnrp3.primenet.com> References: <3vli5j$1ha0@navajo.gate.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: usr3.primenet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]