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>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

I was somewhat confused on exactly what was SoftWindows (as stated in my 
other response).  The original SoftWindows and SoftPC were licensed 
products from MS to actually put Windows on a different platform and mimic 
the instruction set and the API calls.  I guess this product simply mimics 
the 80486 instruction set not Windows.  I imagine this product would be 
hard pressed for compatability though, since it can't possibly mimic all 
facets of the 80486 instruction set nor PC hardware in general.  I wonder 
about performance also since it has to capture instruction by instruction, 
convert, reproduce, and draw an unfamiliar routine to the Macintosh 
display.  They do not have a license for Windows '95 and therefore to any 
of it's API, but you can run Windows '95 on any platform that will take it 
without any provisions;  unlike the Pentium which cannot be put in the form 
of an addon card and use the Intel Inside sticker for compatibility. Sorry,
I was somewhat confused on what the product does (and probably still am).
 
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Edmond Underwood
Computing & Network Services (University of Colorado)
E-mail:  underwoe@Colorado.Edu