The Macintosh Quadra 610 DOS Compatible and the SoftWindows bundle on the Power Macintosh are complementary approaches to provide cross-platform compatibility solutions. The Macintosh Quadra 610 is the only Macintosh that supports the DOS Compatibility Card. The Macintosh Quadra 610 DOS Compatible includes both a Motorola 68040 and an Intel486sx microprocessor enabling customers to run Macintosh, DOS and Windows software concurrently. It comes with MS-DOS 6.21. The DOS Compatible Card does not provide NetWare, or any network support.
SoftWindows is a native Power Macintosh application that runs solely on the Power Macintosh Computers. It emulates the 80286/287 microprocessors, and provides application performance comparable to the speed of entry level 386 to 486 personal computers when running DOS and Windows applications. It comes with MS-DOS 6.21 and Windows 3.1. SoftWindows also provides PC network support such as Netware, LAN Manager, Windows NT Server, and TCP/IP.
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