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Joel Sartoris (jsart@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: 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?

Donald Crabb in the on-line version of MacWeek, Vol 9, no 30, 31 July 1995:

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[...]
   My experiment worked! Thanks to SoftWindows 2.0, I now have Windows 95
   running on a Power 100 Mac OS clone, despite the fact that all the PC
   hardware is being emulated, despite the fact that this Mac clone is
   doubling the size of its hard disk (Symantec Corp.'s DiskDoubler) and
   RAM (Connectix Corp.'s RAM Doubler), and despite the fact that the
   final beta version of SoftWindows 2.0 is not designed to run Windows
   95. It has even been quite usable with a staggeringly small number of
   crashes. In fact, it's more reliable than the real 486 PCs I tested
   Windows 95 on. The performance nets out to about that of a 25-MHz DX
   486 using WinBench and straight usage tests.

   Then I wondered, what about running it on a 9500? So I borrowed one
   and checked it out. Damned if it didn't work, even faster than the
   Power 100. I got speeds comparable to a 33-MHz DX2 486, which was very
                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [sic]   
comfortable for running most applications, video and audio clips, and
   games.

   SoftWindows 2.0 worked with my PC networks, provided PC sound support
   (though not SoundBlaster support) and still worked with the Mac OS.
   Even though Version 2.0, which will ship at Macworld Expo, has not
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: >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

Go talk to Don Crabb if you have any questions.

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