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Article #1583Re: Soft Windows
From: Peter Ceresole
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 00:00
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In article <1d4vgam.ybs8cdgfjd08N@pwomar.demon.co.uk>, Newsmaster@pwomar.demon.co.uk (Paul Womar) wrote: >> Okay. Would there be any advantage to using a Pentium card over Soft >> Windows, bearing in mind Soft Windows is about half the price? > >Apart from being about ten times faster, no :-) You bet. I was running SoftWindows 95 on this 7500/100 and I reckon it went something like a 10MHz Pentium, if such a thing existed... So maybe divide clock speed by 10? Depending on the application of course. However, to check something like a web site it shouldn't make much odds; I found that SoftWin extremely good at compatibility even with things that used tricksy video drivers in DOS. -- Peter
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,181e6f93eded3990 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public From: peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) Subject: Re: Soft Windows Date: 1998/02/22 Message-ID: <B11667489668FD56@cara.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 327641427 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: cara.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.67] References: <B11088A9966874AE6@wcbs.demon.co.uk> <B11103B596683F6AA@valperga.demon.co.uk> <B11452D3966860A49@wcbs.demon.co.uk> <1d4svwv.yitfa218dujvoN@firthcom.demon.co.uk> <B114D1C996689A800@0.0.0.0> <1d4tebz.94hr8v1ql3jx9N@pwomar.demon.co.uk> <B11642A096681A450C@wcbs.demon.co.uk> <1d4vgam.ybs8cdgfjd08N@pwomar.demon.co.uk> Organization: none Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac