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- Subject: Re: ms window emulator
- Message-ID: <zaphod-040992161026@gregt.winona.msus.edu>
- From: zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Gregory Talmo)
- Date: 4 Sep 92 16:12:22 -0600
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- In article <1992Sep4.193208.19187@alw.nih.gov>, kiwasa@helix.nih.gov (k.h.
- iwasa) wrote:
- >
- > My colleague wants to buy a mac for his home use. His wife wants to run
- > a spread-sheet like program that is based on ms window. That is a custom
- > made program, and is unlikely to have a counterpart on the mac. How this
- > can be resolved without buying two separate machines?
- >
- > Is there such a thing as ms window emulator on the mac? I saw ads about
- > ms dos emulator for the mac. Is it possible to run ms window on top of ms
- > dos emulator? I imagine it would be extremely sluggish if it works that
- > way. Does it work? How sluggish?
-
- There was an article in MacWeek not too long ago (1-2 mo.) that said the
- people who make Soft PC, are comming out with something like Soft Windows.
- The article was breif, and my memory fades, but as I recall they said it
- was pretty neat, and would only run on the '040 Macs (i.e. Quadras)
-
-
- - Greg Talmo (zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu)
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