Lisa --

Thanks for reminding us all of this excellent solution... I, too, had
completely forgotten to mention this possibility!  I have had some
experience with running SoftWindows and second your recommendation to
not use this on older machines... you'll spend more time emulating Rip
Van Winkle than you will emulating a PC.

-- Evelyn
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Evelyn J. Ford, Research Administrator
Department of Human Genetics
MCP-Hahnemann School of Medicine
Allegheny University of the Health Sciences
Allegheny Campus
Pittsburgh PA 15212
voice 412.359.4475
fax 412.359.6488
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>>> Lisa <xxxxxx@GRANT02.SALK.EDU> - 11/12/98 5:14 PM >>>
One possibility that has been overlooked on this topic is the concept
of
having your cake and eating it too:
Macintoshes (G3s in particular) are able to emulate PCs quite
reliably and
quickly--and relatively cheaply.  On the high end, a PC emulator card
(at
ca. $400) makes a  Mac G3 run PC software as fast as a Pentium II.
Even
the more inexpensive emulation software (Virtual PC at $159 or Soft
Windows
at $129) allow a G3 to run PC software without making you snooze
between
operations (equivalent to a Pentium 100, for example).

According to my computing sources, the only real problems arise with
very
heavy graphics (such as with games) and old versions of software.  As
with
any advice, your mileage may vary; and you should always ckeck out
your own
configuration with the proposed software before making ANY switch.

Back to lurking...

-L-

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Speaking strictly for myself...
Lisa Churchill-Roth
Grants Administration
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
xxxxxx@SALK.EDU