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Re: Soft Windows

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From: Steve Parker
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 00:00
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Dave Porter wrote:
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> Does anyone have any experience with Soft windows?
> 
> I am designing web pages and I need to see what they look like on a PC. I

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> included, to show exactly what a web page would look like on a real PC?
> 
> Any help appreciated.

I use soft windows 94 (version 4) on an 8100/100 and it runs just fine.  
It ain't exactly sparkling for speed but for occasional use its is more than 
adequate.  You need LOTS of RAM, but if you have that it will do dandy things 
like run MS Word for windows 95.  As I say, its a bit slow but perfectly 
emulates a real Pentium PC instruction set and I reckon everything about 
what you see on teh emulated screen is the same as would be on a real one.  
A Netscape screen in the emuator will give you exactly on screen what you 
would get from a real PC so as a cheap test bed Soft Windows will do you.  
Its definitely NOT fast enough for any PC games though, so don't get your 
hopes up (even version 5 is supposed to be not much faster that 4)

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