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

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From: Jim Wong
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 10:03

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In article <3vmu6s$mv@lace.Colorado.EDU>, Edmond <underwoe@Colorado.Edu> 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.
> 
> Yeh right Bob.  You are making a joke of this.  I'll forward this to MS to 
> see if anyone can copy Windows '95 without a license.  Windows '95 isn't 
> even a product much less something MS would give to someone else.  Don't 
> even try to tell me that they reverse engineered this either.  Sorry, but I 
> am way too skeptical about this one.  This would be big news and this is 
> the first I have heard of it.  I think that it is just rumor and no truth.  
> To be sure, I will forward it to an MS official.

Who said anything about copying Windows 95 without a license?  Don Crabb
installed his copy of a prerelease version of Windows 95 onto a
SoftWindows hard disk.  What's wrong with that?

-- 
Jim Wong (jd-wong@uiuc.edu)

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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....???
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 05:03:10 -0500
Organization: University of Illinois
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