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

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From: Edmond
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 00:17

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ericb@psu.edu (Eric Bennett) wrote:

>
>Actually, my understanding was that SoftWindows 2.0 _is_ supposed to run
>Windows 95.  Their original target shipping date (for SoftWindows) was last 
>December, but it has consistently slipped along with the Win95 release date 
>(can't have a Win95 emulator running on the Mac before Win95 itself is 
>done...).
>
>If you have some info that proves this wrong, please tell me 
>where you got it.  Thanks,

Info - 1800-426-9400.  Ask someone there.  Or go to 
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc.  Both will give you the correct answer that 
SoftWindows 2.0 is a 386 enhanced mode app.  That is the Windows 3.11 
enhanced mode stuff, not Windows '95.  The emulator could never be done 
that quickly.  It took Insignia 2 years to do Enhanced Mode over Real Mode.  
This is really quite a trivial thing (not when you're writing an OS layer 
though).  They have no license to do Windows '95.  If they even tried, they 
would be sued for billions.  That is why the Windows '95(R) has the (R) on 
the end of it.  No copying registered software.  

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Edmond Underwood
Computing & Network Services (University of Colorado)
E-mail:  underwoe@Colorado.Edu

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