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From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows
Message-ID: <1991May29.140238.23530@macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 29 May 91 14:02:38 GMT
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In article <1991May29.044715.7224@netcom.COM> jfh@netcom.COM
(Jack Hamilton) writes:

>Is the Soft-PC program strong enought to run, for example,
>MicroSoft Windows in enhanced mode using a comm port and
>doing graphics, or the Borland Pascal for Windows compiler?
>Anyone know what it costs?

It cost the UW-Madison $299.40 + $10 shipping, direct from
Insignia; I suspect that's a discounted price.
NeXTconnection hadn't yet come to an understanding with
Insignia when I bought SoftPC (a month ago), but maybe
something has happened in the interim.  As a call to
NeXTconnection is free (800/800-NeXT), it's probably useful
to check (helpful folks, btw).

I haven't installed Windows (not sure whether I will), but
the claim is SoftPC will run Windows 3.0.  Since the emulation
is a 80286 machine, it should run real mode, and maybe
standard mode.  But it seems to me you'd need 80386 emulation
to run enhanced mode.

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