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From: glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: SoftPC
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Date: 2 Dec 90 23:40:36 GMT
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In-reply-to: cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu's message of 1 Dec 90 19:35:05 GMT

>I have seen SoftPC run. I have seen SoftPC run on a NeXT. I have seen
>SoftPC run Autocad on a NeXT. SoftPC is supposed to be officially
>released in Q1'91.

yes. They also plan to write an ADI display driver for their "video"
system (emulation of course). The program actually runs at very 
acceptable speeds for drawing edit and conversion and should run well
enough for design with the ADI driver. 

By the way, the rep. for Insignia told me that it runs rings around the
Sparc version for some reason. I didn't get into why that might be.

- g