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

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From: Jim Wong
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 00:21

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jsart@ix.netcom.com (Joel Sartoris) 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. 

Try:

http://www.zdnet.com/~macweek/mw_07-31-95/mac_manager.html
-- 
Jim Wong (jd-wong@uiuc.edu)

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 2 Aug 1995 00:21:28 GMT
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