well enough i should think. it obviously won't be blazing fast but you can run softwindows on 68k's so i would hope that a PPC could handle it.

SoftWindows might be a bit faster than VPC, too. SoftWindows benefits from only having to emulate Windows and a HAL as opposed to a complete PC.

Peace,
Drew

Would there be much speed difference between Widnows 3.1 and Windows 95 in SoftWindows?

Windows 3.1 uses less resources, so it'll be faster, but Windows 95 will run newer apps. Although, I suppose the age of the apps shouldn't matter much, as both 95 and 3.1 will have some really really old apps, and would only be marginally useful online. (NT4 is where it's at, for retro Windows productivity. )

95's not actually as bad as you might think - it can run IE 5.5 or Firefox 1.5 (I think - certainly 1.0 works but not 2.0) and Office 2000.

I'll have to try that some day since I recently got a machine that'd be good with Windows 95 -- it'd be similar to running it in VPC on a 1400 (if not faster, this is a P120 with a 1.2 gig hdd, and I can upgrade it to 40 or more of ram.)

I recently obtained a Pentium 133 system which had Windows 95 on it. Seems fast enough for some tasks.

For Internet stuff, I won't be using it with the Internet, or it is unlikely that I will be.

A real P/133 will be a few magnitudes faster than VPC on a 603/133 -- especially if you can give the P/133 a good chunk (32mb or more) of ram.

lol. I forgot they both had the same clock speed.

If one shows up at an affordable price on eBay, I might get a G3 accellerator for the 1400. Although a floppy drive is still my top priority.

Speaking for floppies, I just bought two packs of 10 coloured HD disks . I've never had coloured disks before (except DD ones which I use on the Amiga).

around here, it's actually cheaper to get colored ones than normal ones. Even cheaper if they're neon see-through colored disks. Weird, but ohwell.

Makes it difficult for people who want to make large, uniformly colored backup sets.

I want some of those neon ones. I have seen them and they look so cool!

I also got a pack of 20 black ones. Total came to about £6 on ebay for both the black ones and the coloured ones.

Single coloured ones like black or blue or white tend to be cheaper here than coloured ones.