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Re: Soft Windows

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From: Robin Jackson
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 00:00
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In article <B11088A9966874AE6@wcbs.demon.co.uk>,
dave@wcbs.demon.co.uk (Dave Porter) wrote:

>Subject: Soft Windows
>From: Dave Porter
>Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:46:33 +0000
>Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac
>
>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
>considered, for a few seconds, buying a cheap PC but apart from viewing web
>pages I really have no need for such a thing.
>
>I have read the review of the new version of Soft Windows, version 5.0, in
>MacUser and it states that 'you get as near as damn it a PC inside your
>Mac...'
>
>Is this the case, does it really emulate a PC so closely and would Soft
>Windows allow me to use a PC version of Netscape, which I believe is
>included, to show exactly what a web page would look like on a real PC?

Yes it does and yes it should.

My company makes a product that REALLY gets deep into a PC and yet it runs
fine under SodtWindows.

I can even connect to the office network and Internet using it.

Robin
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Subject: Re: Soft Windows
Date: 1998/02/19
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