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- From: george@ucs.ubc.ca (George Chow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: SoftPc Professional
- Message-ID: <1itj6rINNqqh@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 04:59:07 GMT
- References: <1993Jan7.012140.1@fnalo.fnal.gov> <1993Jan8.023036.24274@afit.af.mil>
- Organization: University Computing Services, UBC, Canada
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- In article <1993Jan8.023036.24274@afit.af.mil> johair@afit.af.mil (John R. O'hair) writes:
- >adunn@fnalo.fnal.gov writes:
- >>I saw the ad in the latest NeXTWorld for SoftPC Professional. Has anyone tried
- >>it yet? How well does it work under NeXTStep 2.1?
- >
- >I called yesterday. It's not out yet. Should be released by the end of
- >January. They are taking orders, and if your upgrading its $100.
-
- So what makes this "professional"? Does it run at a realistic so that a
- even professional would actually use it? :)
-
- And what about the promise of the free 3.0 SoftPC upgrade for people who
- bought the academic bundle back way in '90? (Did Insignia changed the
- name to get out of that?)
-
- George
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