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From: richf@adiron.UUCP (Rick Fanta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: SoftPc for the Next?
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Date: 14 Nov 90 13:25:37 GMT
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optadm7@watserv1.waterloo.edu (J.Cassidy - Optometry) writes:


> I have heard some talk about SoftPc for the NeXT.  Does
>anyone have any further information on this product?  Has
>anyone used it, or seen it running?  

>=========================================================================
>Jim Cassidy                           optadm7@watserv1.waterloo.{edu,cdn}
>University of Waterloo                optadm7@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
>200 University Ave.                   VE3RTS
>Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1     (519) 885-1211 ext. 6240

I called Insignia solutions (makers of SoftPC) last week and asked them for 
literature.  It came yesterday, but it wasn't much; a one page glossy with
lots of pretty pictures describing SoftPC for Sparcstations and a brief 1-1/2
page letter saying that SoftPC is great and is now available for the Next at
$595.  When I called asking for the literature, I asked the sales rep what
PC programs it runs and what it has trouble on.  He claimed it runs the basics
(Lotus 1-2-3, Dbase, etc.) as well as usually hard-to-run programs (Microsoft
Flight Simulator).  The only problem arises when you want to do things like
acess communications cards, etc.

Call them for more info.  As usual, I don't know much, but am willing to share
(and argue about =;-) the little I know. 

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Rick Fanta	(richf@adiron.uucp)
		"Those who speak, do not know.
		 Those who know, do not speak."
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