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

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From: Tom L. Davis
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 00:34

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

: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.

If Apple's new emulator (on the 9500) can outperform all 040 Macs, why
can't Softwindows do the same relative to a 66 MHz 486DX2 (which I assume
is equivalent to a 33 MHz 040)?

Tom

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 19:34:35 -0500
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