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Article #305Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Marc Nimchuk
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 07:47
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 07:47
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Edmond (underwoe@Colorado.Edu) wrote: : 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. : -------------------------------------------------------------------- : Edmond Underwood : Computing & Network Services (University of Colorado) : E-mail: underwoe@Colorado.Edu Please do. Perhaps someone could foreward him Don's email address? I dont have a copy of MacWeek handy... Also, why are you so concerned about a license? If SoftWindows 2.0 emulates a 486, and the owner buys a copy of W95 (or the beta as the case may be) MS has no role in the matter.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!gpu3!mnimchuk From: mnimchuk@gpu3.srv.ualberta.ca (Marc Nimchuk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Date: 2 Aug 1995 07:47:31 GMT Organization: University of Alberta Message-ID: <3vnaij$m8i@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <3vli5j$1ha0@navajo.gate.net> <3vlq7q$stc@lace.Colorado.EDU> <rmcassid-0108951723110001@dante.eng.uci.edu> <3vmusd$mv@lace.Colorado.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: gpu3.srv.ualberta.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]