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

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From: Robert Cassidy
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 00:23

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In article <3vlq7q$stc@lace.Colorado.EDU>, Edmond <underwoe@Colorado.Edu> wrote:

> It will not run on a PowerMac.  SoftWindows is a software package that 
> Insignia bought the rights to make from MS.  They just completed the 
> Enhanced 386 version which can do protected mode memory mapping.  They do 
> not have a license to do Windows '95 and it would be very difficult for 
> them to do seeing as how they struggled with Windows 3.1.  If MS is still 
> debugging the heck out of Windows '95, don't expect SoftWindows to be a 
> Windows '95 product anytime.  Mac users are better off waiting for CHRP and 
> loading NT 4.0 or Cairo.

You better tell that to Don Crabb. Seems he had Win95 running on
Softwindows 2.0 Beta on a PMac 9500. Softwindows doesn't need a license
now that they have moved to doing straight 486 instruction emulation.

-- 
Bob Cassidy
UC Irvine

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 17:23:11 -0700
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