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From: billr@saab.CNA.TEK.COM (Bill Randle)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: The best of all worlds (Was Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! READ THIS...)
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Date: 10 May 91 20:28:31 GMT
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In article <7450007@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> yoshida@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Stuart Yoshida) writes:
>steved@hrshcx.csd.harris.com (Steve Daukas) writes:
>> Unix is great (I use it at work and have various knock-offs for my PC),
>> but it doesn't run DOS applications.
>
>  How about an HP9000 series 700?  Under HP-UX running MOTIF/X11R4
>  there's a program called SoftPC that allows you to use any DOS-based
>  program in a PC window.  The performance of the low-end machine in
>  this RISC-based workstation line (the model 720) runs DOS applications
>  at about the speed of a 25MHz 386 machine.  I've seen it work, and
>  it's *very* impressive.  System prices start at $12K plus about $500
>  for SoftPC.  And, yes, my opinion is quite biased :-) ;-)

This must be a different (newer?) version of SoftPC than what is being sold
for Sun Workstations. According to the literature I have, SoftPC only
supports EGA, CGA and Hercules (i.e. no VGA, SVGA). Performance wise,
it says using SoftPC on a Sun SparcStation 1+ (16 MIPS) is about the same
as a 6MHz PC/AT!

We are looking into an add-on 386 board that fits into a Sbus slot on a
Sparc and runs DOS applications (including support for VGA) in a window.

	-Bill Randle
	Tektronix, Inc.
	billr@saab.CNA.TEK.COM