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- Videoman wrote:
- >
- > Rick Ho <a484howa@cdf.toronto.edu> wrote:
- >
- > >For all the anti-Intel computer lovers:
- > > Go buy an Intel made motherboard (Zapper, Endeavor, Atlantis whatever),
- > > and put a Cyrix 6x86 chip on it.
- >
- > >For all the anti-Cyrix computer lovers:
- > > Go buy an Intel made motherboard and put an AMD 5k86 on it.
- >
- > >For all the anti-Macintosh PC lovers:
- > > Go buy ARDI Executor and run Mac apps. on your PC.
- > > (Don't know what Executor is? Check it out at www.ardi.com)
- >
- > Howabout this one. For all those Mac owner who wished that they had
- > bought a PC/were able to run Win95:
- >
- > Go buy the new SoftWindows 3.0 (4.0?) for PPC that emulates a 486
- > chip. Buy Windows 95 upgrade edition. Install Win95 on top of the
- > DOS/Win3.1 include in the SoftWindows package. Voila! A PPC Mac that
- > runs Win95 apps!! (BTW, This is real. Some guy at a computer store
- > came up to the tech I was talking to and asked him about this. He said
- > it would work. The guy apparently bought it. Not sure what the final
- > outcome was. Scary, huh?)
-
-
- Very scary! Actually I guess it does work, I saw a segment on
- CNN where they did an interview with some bigwig at Macintosh. This
- windows compatible scheme is one of their plans to keep from going
- under, along with lowering prices up to 50%. I almost laughed to death
- when i heard straight out of his mouth " we want to make it so our users
- can use programs like windows 95 and run microsoft programs" This
- straight from the horses mouth! What is this world comin too? :)
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