jfh@netcom.COM (Jack Hamilton) (05/29/91)
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? -- Jack Hamilton jfh@netcom.com apple!netcom!jfh
anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) (05/29/91)
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 Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson NeXTmail w/attachments: anderson@yak.macc.wisc.edu Bitnet: anderson@wiscmacc Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888
jeffa@janderholm.lotus.com (Jeff Anderholm) (05/31/91)
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 > Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson > NeXTmail w/attachments: anderson@yak.macc.wisc.edu Bitnet: anderson@wiscmacc > Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888 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.
ty@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Tyng-Jing Yang) (05/31/91)
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