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Re: emulator for Windows 3.1



"Mike Pfaiffer" <mike@digitalcivilization.ca> wrote in message
3D56B2E0.70309@digitalcivilization.ca">news:3D56B2E0.70309@digitalcivilization.ca...

> snip <

>
> > In the second case, the only IBM PC emulator I know of for an
Apple II
> > is the PC Transporter, a card which emulated a PC/XT with 640KB of
RAM
> > and CGA graphics. It can run up to Windows 3.0, but not 3.1, and
even
> > then is very limited because of the memory and graphics
limitations.
> >
>
> Really? I thought starting with Windows 3.0 the minimum requirement
was a
> 386. 2.X ran rather badly on a 286. XT machines are one step below
that.
>

In the early 90s I ran Windows 3.0 on my PC Transporter, honest.  I
only used it for a short time because it was very slow and for the
most part really a joke next to GS/OS.

Charlie