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

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From: Robert Cassidy
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 16:27

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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.

Uhh, what? So what if Don Crabb went out and bought a beta (gee, even
making money on unfinished software) of Win '95 and dumped it on a 486
emulator? Softwin 2.0 should ship as a 486 emulator with a standard Win
3.1 or Win 95 licence dropped on top. Who needs to reverse engineer a
product you buy off the shelf?

-- 
Bob Cassidy
UC Irvine

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 09:27:08 -0700
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