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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.
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>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.

This is remarkably silly.  If I buy a copy of Win95 surely I'm free to
run it on whatever hardware I choose.  My hardware might be something
that emulates the 486 instruction set.  Since Win95 is at the root
it a bunch of 486 instructions, the emulator may be able to run it.

For that matter, I believe someone posted here that they ran OS/2 on
Softwindows.

-arun gupta
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>Edmond Underwood
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