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From: whm@sunquest.UUCP (Bill Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Qs re SoftPC on DS3100
Message-ID: <1607@sunquest.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 90 00:57:11 GMT
Organization: Sunquest Information Systems, Tucson
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I'm trying to get some first-hand information about SoftPC, the all-software
PC emulator that DEC sells for the DS3100.

I've been told by a DEC rep that SoftPC works with X windows.  Does anyone know
if graphics programs will work?  If graphics, which ones?  (VGA? EGA? CGA?
Hercules? Monochrome?)

Do all DOS programs work or there are some that don't? (It seems to me that
with a software emulation, you should be able to get 100% compatibility.  If
not, why not?  I understand that some things might be real sloooow.)

We've looked at Sun's DOS Windows 1.0 and it's a lot cheaper than DEC's
solution, but it doesn't work with X.
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