[X4U] Re: Apple's move to Intel chips

[Michael Winter]

On Jun 9, 2005, at 2:14 AM, Timothy Luoma wrote:

> There was something on NeXTSTEP called SoftPC that ran Windows 3.1  
> or some atrocity like that.

It was also on the Mac, as well as SoftWindows. IIRC, SoftPC emulated  
a version of DOS, and SoftWindows emulated Windows 3.x. Note that  
they emulated the OS, as opposed to VPC which emulated the hardware.  
Compatibility with the SoftPC/Win was fairly spotty, but it did seem  
faster than VPC, at least for the first couple versions.

Then VPC solved some speed issues, and since it was already more  
"compatible" and could be used for any PC OS (theoretically), SoftPC/ 
Win died off. I have to give them some credit though. I'd think  
emulating Windows would be a whole lot harder than emulating an open  
PC architecture.

-Mike