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From: ty@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Tyng-Jing Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows
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Date: 31 May 91 01:28:05 GMT
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In-reply-to: jeffa@janderholm.lotus.com's message of 30 May 91 19:37:32 GMT


jeffa@janderholm.lotus.com (Jeff Anderholm) writes

>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.

I don't think the problem of slow screen update comes from
color display processing. Mine is a monochrome cube w/16M and I
allocated 14M RAM to SoftPC. It still runs like a turtle when
running games or MS window3. I'm not flaming SoftPC, I do hope next version
of SoftPC can solve this problem. It does its job well when runnig
prorams like BC++, Norton Commander, or communcation program.

Jing