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From: keith@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Vampires R Us)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: SoftPC
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Date: 2 Dec 90 09:50:49 GMT
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In article <10561@helios.TAMU.EDU> cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu (Chuck Herrick) writes:
>In article <1990Dec1.003423.10078@panews> keith@ibmsupt.UUCP (Keith Mason) writes:
>>I've heard so many jokes about SoftPC that I wonder if it a real product.
>
>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.

I've seen a pre-release of SoftPC.  It was even running on a
'040 NeXTStation.  We laughed when we saw the directory.
ACAD?  We launched 1-2-3 and counted the seconds to see how long
we'd get into the spreadsheet.  We played around.  All in all
I'd say it's at AT speeds.   From what I've seen, it looks like
finished product.
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Keith Kinoshita; UH-KapCC, OCS, Cmptr, Lecturer 
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