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In article <rmcassid-0108951723110001@dante.eng.uci.edu> rmcassid@uci.edu (Robert Cassidy) writes:
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>Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
>Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 17:23:11 -0700
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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.

But Crabb's article says that SW 2.0 is not designed to run Win95.  So Ed is 
correct--if you buy SoftWindows 2.0, you will not be running SoftWindows, and 
I doubt you'd get much help from Insignia tech support if you got your own 
copy of Win95 and tried to install it in SW 2.0...

-Ericb@psu.edu