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- From: jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Jolyon Ralph")
- Subject: Re: PowerAmiga & NT
- Message-ID: <Dp0wBn.8Bz@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Organization: Compulink Information eXchange
- References: <4j95ut$441@ci.ist.utl.pt>
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:42:59 GMT
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-
- > Dunno. But i have seen in Amiga Computing a report on the company which
- > makes Emplant claiming they slowed down the Emplant PC module because
- > they were developing POWERCLONE a PowerPC IBM PC emulator.
-
- Insignia software have had one of these available for a while (called
- Soft Windows) for PowerPC, and porting it to PowerAmiga would be
- relatively easy for them (or you could run it on PowerShapeShifter :-)
-
- Their Mac 68k version of Soft Windows, running on the Emplant board or on
- Shapeshifter is faster than Emplant's PC emulator anyway (allegedly :-)
-
- > BTW all the new Win95 apps run on NT.
-
- But for 32-bit apps (like all Win95 apps) you'll need a version compiled
- for the native CPU (ie PowerPC), the intel code won't work, only 16-bit
- old Windows apps will run in emulated 486 mode on Windows NT. You can get
- PowerPC versions of much popular software, eg Microsoft Office, but not
- everything...
-
- Jolyon
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