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

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From: Edmond
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 04:27

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rmcassid@uci.edu (Robert Cassidy) wrote:

>
>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.
>

Somewhat confused here.  SoftWindows steals 80486 binary calls and 
translates all calls into 604 PPC calls?  That would mean that ANY 
currently shipping software would run on it including NT, Solaris x86, 
NextStep 486, OS/2 Warp, Linux, and everything else.  This does sound 
peculiar.  Again, I'll check this out.

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

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 2 Aug 1995 04:27:57 GMT
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