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From: jeffa@janderholm.lotus.com (Jeff Anderholm)
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows
Message-ID: <1991May30.193732.11334@lotus.com>
Date: 30 May 91 19:37:32 GMT
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In article <1991May29.140238.23530@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess  
Anderson) writes:
> 
> 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.
> 
> <> Sometimes truth comes riding into history on the back of
> <> error. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
> --
> Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin
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The list price on SoftPC is $499, I believe.  I have brought Windows 3.0 up on  
SoftPC on a NeXTstation Color, but not on a monochrome system.   With another  
app running on the color system and running Windows in the SoftPC window,  
performance was VERY slow.  This was on a machine with 16meg.  I suspect a  
large part of this performance hit came from the color display processing.