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In article <goodill_eric-101192144018@ericg.cpd.tandem.com>
goodill_eric@tandem.com (Eric Goodill) writes:
>Hi,
>
>My mom is considering buying a MacPlus.  It has 4 MB and a 20 MB hard disk.
> Her office uses mostly PC programs, so she wondered if SoftPC could soft
>her problem of compatability with PC programs while still using a Mac for
>her personal stuff.  Any advice as to whether this will work well (aside
>from slow)?
>
>Cheers, Eric
>Eric Goodill, goodill_eric@tandem.com, Tandem Computers, Cupertino, Calif.
>
Eric,
I wouldn't highly recommend it.  First of all, SoftPC will take up some of your
MAC HD, as a DOS partition, the minimum is 5 MB, but 10 MB is more comfortable,
depending on what PC applications she will use.  Perhaps if you add another
external hard drive to increase disk capacity.   Your System 7 System file will
take up nearly half of your RAM, leaving you with only about 2 MB of RAM to
use.  If your mom is going to use applications such as Word and Excel, the
machine's RAM will be used up.  She probably won't have the disk space to load
the System files, Word, Excel (or other typical OA applications) and a 10 MB
SoftPC partition on that 20 MB HD.

Perhaps with a 40+ MB extra external HD, System 6.0.7 (w/System 7.0 print
drivers), the machine may perform okay.