mab@ecmwf.co.uk (Baudoin Raoult) (01/22/91)
Can you run Soft PC on the Mac LC ?
starta@tosh.UUCP (John Starta) (01/24/91)
mab@ecmwf.co.uk (Baudoin Raoult) writes: > Can you run Soft PC on the Mac LC ? Insignia has announced a Classic/LC version of SoftPC which is expected to ship in February. As a side note, Insignia has decided to make it capable of running on the Plus as well. John -- John A. Starta Internet: tosh!starta@asuvax.eas.asu.edu Software Visionary UUCP: ncar!noao!asuvax!tosh!starta AOL: AFA John; CompuServe: 71520,3556
Randy.Shaw@p1.f555.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Randy Shaw) (01/28/91)
> From: mab@ecmwf.co.uk (Baudoin Raoult) > Date: 22 Jan 91 08:39:49 GMT > Organization: ECMWF > Message-ID: <1991Jan22.083949.20507@ecmwf.co.uk> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps > > > Can you run Soft PC on the Mac LC ? A new version of SoftPC that will run on the Plus, SE, and the LC is due out "any day now". It will retail for $200., so figure mail order of approx. $140. or so. It emulates a '286 CPU, but runs at approx. XT speeds on an LC. -- Randy Shaw - via FidoNet node 1:125/777 UUCP: ...!uunet!hoptoad!fidogate!161!555.1!Randy.Shaw INTERNET: Randy.Shaw@p1.f555.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG
mab@ecmwf.co.uk (Baudoin Raoult) (01/30/91)
Does SOFT PC works on a LC ?
quark@asylum.SF.CA.US (Dave Hull) (02/02/91)
mab@ecmwf.co.uk (Baudoin Raoult) writes: >Does SOFT PC works on a LC ? Yes. SoftPC needs an 020 processor and 2 megs of RAM. If you want to use SoftPC EGA/AT, you need 4 megs of RAM. You can tell EGA/AT to disable it's 287 emulator if you don't have a math chip. Late this month we should be shipping SoftPC classic. It works on the LC, the Plus, The SE, the Classic, and the portable. It emulates a 286 without a math co-processor with CGA graphics. And it will list for $199. -- |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| - As soon as you have made : I am - - a thought, laugh at it. : quark@asylum.sf.cs.us - - --Lao Tse : and I have many opinions... _ ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
toster@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (Tom Oster) (02/02/91)
In article <1991Jan25.113210.7552@vax1.tcd.ie> dagraham@vax1.tcd.ie writes: > Does the LC have a FPU anyhow? No, & none is currently available to my knowledge. However, a program called PseudoFPU appeared recently on comp.binaries.mac. I tried it with the Satori module in AfterDark (which requires the FPU) and it ran -- slowly, but it ran. The docs that came with it indicated that it would be about 100 times slower than the hardware version. As the original post was: > In article <1991Jan22.083949.20507@ecmwf.co.uk>, mab@ecmwf.co.uk (Baudoin Raoult) writes: > > > > Can you run Soft PC on the Mac LC ? I would expect that any resulting system (with 2 separate hardware emulations) would be far to slow for a sane person to want to deal with. PseudoFPU was written by: John M. Neil 3257 Greer Road Palo Alto, California 94303 He says in his documentation: "You may distribute this product free of charge to anyone. You may not distribute this product for any fee whatsoever, nor may you distribute it with any product for which a fee is charged. For information on commercial licensing, contact me at the address below." (In this case, above.) Hope this helps. Tom Oster - Computing Resource Center Baylor College of Medicine toster@watson.bcm.tmc.edu Opinions expressed here are mine alone.