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From: Jerry.Andrews@f426.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Jerry Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Soft PC
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Date: 11 Jan 90 02:20:38 GMT
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 DF> out there has experience with Soft PC.  I have heard rumors that the 

I'm doing Clipper software development on SoftPC (I don't recommend this, BTW).  The Norton index is 1.5 (...time the speed of a 4.77MHz 8088, presumably) on my IIcx.  The display emulates CGA.

This is an unbelievably robust program.  I've seen it raise a dialog box rather than try to execute a forbidden instruction, and a lot of my relatively-poorly behaved utilities run perfectly on it.

Highly recommended, but not for production work.


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