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To: soup who wrote (646)12/25/1996 11:24:00 PM
From: Dave von Hausen   of 213183
 
soup,

>>Dumb Question: I understand that *new* applications can be created on the NeXT
>>OS to run on Pentium machines, but can *existing* Win '95 and NT apps be run on
>>the NeXT OS (as in SoftWindows) with comparable speed.

They can run using software emulation but at a reduced speed. Assuming
the app is compiled for the native processor, I think
it is about 70 - 95% and varies with the application. It depends
heavily on if your running the windows app on an intel processor or
some other processor such as PPC.

Dave
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