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

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From: Joel Sartoris
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 23:43

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In <3vlv3n$8o0@nnrp3.primenet.com> english@primenet.com (Lawson
English) writes: 

>
>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.
>
Ok, I'll bite... "Said" by whom?

>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.
>
Quite so, if it could be believed.

If you haven't guessed, I'm seeking a citation, albeit somewhat
skeptically. 

--Joel R. Sartoris

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 1 Aug 1995 23:43:22 GMT
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