Apple's Software Quality Assurance team has determined that, based on test results from running Microsoft's official Windows 95 System Compatibility Tests, the following cross-platform Macintosh systems are compatible with Windows 95 when configured with a minimum of 8MB of RAM for the Windows 95 environment:

• Power Macintosh 6100/66 DOS Compatible
• Macintosh LC 630 DOS Compatible
• Macintosh Performa 640CD DOS Compatible
• DOS Compatibility Card for Power Macintosh 6100 and Performa 6100 Series

DOS Compatibility Card Questions and Answers

Answer: Like any legacy PC system that shipped prior to the availability of a Plug-and-Play BIOS, the above systems do not pass those specific Windows 95 System Compatibility Tests that require conformance to the "Plug-and-Play" specification. However, unlike other legacy PCs, Macintosh personal computers have delivered full plug and play capabilities for years. In addition, Apple's cross-platform Macintosh systems come preconfigured with features that often require users to plug in a separate card, frequently with configuration problems, on a PC, such as Sound Blaster 16-bit sound capabilities.

Question: How should I configure Windows 95 for printing on Apple's cross-platform Macintosh systems?

Answer: Since Apple's current cross-platform Macintosh systems do not have a physical PC parallel port, and therefore do not support bi-directional parallel port functionality, Apple recommends that users configure Windows 95 for printing as follows:

Step 1

Open My Computer, open Printers, and add a printer.

Step 2

Open the printer that has been added by double clicking on the icon from the Printers folder.

Step 3

From the Printer menu, choose the item called Properties.

Step 4

In the Properties window, select Details, and then select Spool Settings.

Step 5

In Spool Settings, disable the bi-directional port.

Question: What about networking support on Apple's cross-platform Macintosh systems?

Answer: Apple continues to support network client software via the Open Data-Link Interface, or ODI (Novell Netware 3.x/4.x, TCP/IP client software). While native NDIS support is not supported today, Apple expects to provide this capability in the future. Many customers are successfully using ODI-to-NDIS shims today, even though, as with any software translation layer, performance is not optimized.

Question: When I installed Windows 95, the copy-and-paste functionality between the Mac OS and Windows environments stopped working. Is there a workaround?

Answer: Windows 95 made changes that negated the ability to copy-and-paste data between applications running in the Mac OS and Windows 95 environments. While Apple expects to provide the capability to copy-and-paste between the Mac OS and Windows 95 environments in the future, there are a couple of workarounds today. First, Macintosh PC Exchange and Macintosh Easy Open continue to make it easy for customers to identify, and automatically launch, Mac OS applications to open documents saved in the most popular PC formats. Second, users can create separate drive containers--one with the Windows 3.1 environment and one with the Windows 95 environment--and work within the Windows 3.1 environment when they need to copy-and-paste data between the Mac OS and Windows environments.

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