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Article #2967Re: Questions on SoftAT (or SoftPC)
From: John Galloway
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 00:00
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 00:00
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In article <1992Sep11.101920.312@mis.mcw.edu> jmoulder@mis.mcw.edu writes:
>In article <1992Sep11.015103.4944@ecl.psu.edu>, ygh@ecl.psu.edu writes:
>> I am interested in SoftAT(or SoftPC).
>> Does anyone use and recommend it?
>>
>
>I've got , I've used it, I *DO NOT* recommend it.
>Its no longer even on my machine; wanna buy it from me;-)
ditto. I'll sell you my copy as well.
>
>Its simply so slow that its useless (even running on a IIci with a cache card,
>and a math coprocessor). Its also not cheap.
Even on my Quadra 700, its STILL to slow.
Also it does not perfrectly emulate the x86 floating point, so for some apps
you must disable 80287 emulation for them to run (this wasy the case for
the AIQ stock program for which I bought SoftAT.)
-jrg
>
>If you have to run msdos applications you would probably be better off buying a
>cheap clone.
>
>If you need to use material generated on someone elses PC, you would probably
>be better off buying a translator program (I use MacLinkPC from DataVis).
>
>John Moulder (jmoulder@mis.mcw.edu)
>Radiation Biology Group
>Medical College of Wisconsin
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!gossip.pyramid.com!pyramid!infmx!johng From: johng@informix.com (John Galloway) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Questions on SoftAT (or SoftPC) Message-ID: <1992Sep14.000025.15802@informix.com> Date: 14 Sep 92 00:00:25 GMT References: <1992Sep11.015103.4944@ecl.psu.edu> <1992Sep11.101920.312@mis.mcw.edu> Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News) Organization: Galloway Research Lines: 33