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From: gelobter@garnet.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Warning about SoftPC.
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Date: 23 Mar 89 02:35:47 GMT
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I recently purchased the newest verstion of SoftPC (1.3).
I was pretty excited about it 'cause it's pretty cheap,
runs under multifinder, in the background, and uses the
SuperDrive directly.  Potentially a real PC in my MAC.

Unfortunately it has a seriouis bug.  On any machine that
uses a Datadesk keyboard, or perhaps any non-Apple keyboard, 
the program takes about 5 minutes to quit or to switch to another
program from multifinder.

SoftPC confirmed this bug, and could give me no date for a fix.

I consider this a serious bug because those of us
interested in having a little  PC action on our macs are likely
to be using the Datadesk keyboard, since it matches our fingers' 
expectations from PC keyboards.

Thought y'all should know.