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Article #888Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola
From: Anthony Schlemmer
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 04:59
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 04:59
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Max Bell (mbell@atheria.europa.com) wrote: : In article <hohmuth.82.302B71CB@cipserv1.physik.uni-ulm.de>, : Lars Hohmuth <hohmuth@cipserv1.physik.uni-ulm.de> wrote: : >Doesn`t Insignia live by selling Windows ports to unsuspecting Mac and Unix : >users, not to speak of licenceing Microsofts code???????????????????? : Insignia Solution's SoftWindows product provides complete emulation of an : 80x86 based personal computer in software. The latest version emulates the : 486 while the previous version emulated the 286. As has been referred to in : previous posts, the quality of this emulation is such that Windows/95 runs : within the 486 version. Some programs provided with the Insignia installed : copy of Windows require access to Microsoft software layers, but SoftWindows : itself is an entirely separate entity from Windows. Personally, I think they : should have kept the more descriptive name of SoftPC. I'm looking forward to : the release of the 486 version for the Digital UNIX environment. You need a real fast machine to any any descent performance with SoftWindows. Myself and many of my co-workers are forced to run SoftWindows on SGI Indy boxs and it brings the Indy's performance to a crawl. Word 6.0 is painful for all but the smallest of documents. : Max : -- : .----------------------------------------+----------------------------------. : | /\ /\/ Max Bell <mbell@europa.com> | Help save the Net. Support your | : | / \/ /\ http://www.europa.com/~mbell | local Internet Service Provider! | : `----------------------------------------+----------------------------------' -- Anthony Schlemmer aschlemm@netcom.com schlemaj@ibs.uscs.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.terminals.tty5620,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!netcom.com!aschlemm From: aschlemm@netcom.com (Anthony Schlemmer) Subject: Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola Message-ID: <aschlemmDD6LuJ.90t@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.terminals.tty5620,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <4006km$4os@questor.org> <nevin-1008950420370001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> <Pine.OSF.3.91.950810150 <hohmuth.82.302B71CB@cipserv1.physik.uni-ulm.de> <40h9sa$f7r@thetics.europa.com> Distribution: inet Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 04:59:06 GMT Sender: aschlemm@netcom5.netcom.com