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Great story. I recall SoftPC but not SoftWindows. The Wikipedia page has something interesting to say: > Unlike most emulators, the SoftWindows product used re
by karmakaze 5y ago
Great story. I recall SoftPC but not SoftWindows. The Wikipedia page has something interesting to say:
> Unlike most emulators, the SoftWindows product used recompiled Windows components to improve performance in most business applications, providing almost native performance (but this meant that, unlike SoftPC, SoftWindows was not upgradable).
- compsciphd 5y agohmm, it might have been SoftPC. It's been a while :) I think we might have used both in different stages of the project (or on different machines, we were prototyping it on a CMW version of SCO (x86 major COTS advantage) and also had it on either SunOS CMW or trusted Solaris, but HP had the big TAC4 contract for workstations so main usage was on it, that I remember for sure.
- karmakaze 5y agoMy understanding is that it started out that SoftPC bundled with Windows licenses were sold as SoftWindows, and later there were optimizations.