The last version of those cards ran a Pentium clone (6x86 or a K6) and
ran in the late 604-era machines. Still not a perfect solution, but
better than emulation was on any system slower than a G4.
-Adam
John Francis wrote:
I had some experience with that product; there was also a version
of it that ran on Apollo (68000-based) workstations. As Paul says,
the software emulation hoovered. The version that used hardware
(a 286, not a 386, IIRC), plus some fancy logic to share the ISA
bus, worked a great deal better. You could even boot the device
off the 5 1/4 floppy on the Apollo.
I used that quite a bit - it was easier to just run my old DOS
code on the simulated environment than to port it to the Apollo.
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 07:36:31PM -0500, Lon Williamson wrote:
Yup. Softwindows it was. Never ran it. I had my Mac,
but always had access to PCs within a year or two of their introduction.
Ahh.... XT and a 10MB hard drive for something like 4 or 5 grand in
1985.....
Paul Stenquist wrote:
I used SoftWindows on an early Power Mac....
On Mar 17, 2006, at 7:07 PM, Lon Williamson wrote:
Hell, in the mid 90s Apple had a hardware solution: a 386 card,
if I remember correctly. And someone at the same time had a software-
only solution. This is back in the 68K processor days.
