It is slow. I don't have DOS (on its own) to install, but will dload one of free alternatives later this week to try out. The DOS part of win98 installation was fine and perfectly usuable as far as I could tell from the brief interaction. Installing win98 took all night (6 hours) from start to finish. had to leave it then to go to work
atm the installation is set up to emulate pentium class processor with 32 Mb memory. It might be far faster aiming at 486 emu, which would cope fine with DOS and win95.
I was impressed with how easily and cleanly the sorce compiled for PPC - certainly worth an experiment.
Bochs is slow because it emulates the whole intel machine (vga/pci devices/storage drives), rather than just virtualising the OS calls like WINE or VMWare.
I don't anticipate attempting to install any really large software (cos I don't have any MS stuff available) but have a few older win95 educational apps that would be quite nice to see live again.
When run on a fast x86, Bochs is quick enough to run win95 at a usable speed, so hoping for my little G3-600 to go very far is perhaps a little ambitious. Those dual G4s, however...
Perhaps bbrv could set up another showdown