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.
