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- From: mjo@ef2007.efhd.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: X-compatable DOS Emulator under Unix...the winner is:
- Message-ID: <BuF2x7.BnB@ef2007.efhd.ford.com>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 14:00:43 GMT
- References: <1739@aviary.Stars.Reston.Unisys.COM>
- Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
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- In article <1739@aviary.Stars.Reston.Unisys.COM> stine@aviary.UUCP
- (John P. Stine) writes:
-
- :Thanks to all who responded to my query regarding an X-compatable
- :DOS emulator under Unix. It looks like the only product currently
- :available which is compatable with X is SoftPC 3.0, from Insignia
- :Solutions. It's a software solution - no additional hardware is
- :required. Insignia claims that SoftPC running on a 40 MHz Sparc
- :emulates a 20 MHz 386, and that it runs MS Windows "well."
-
- Maybe it emulates a 386 in terms of speed, but *not* in functionality.
- It's a 286 emulator, not a 386 emulator. And I'd be tempted to say
- that it's more like a 20MHz 386SX, but I've not used the Sun
- implementation of SoftPC in awhile.
-
- ...Mike
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