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Article #27977SoftPC Speed
From: Greg DeMichillie
Date: Wed, 11 May 1988 02:43
Date: Wed, 11 May 1988 02:43
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I saw a demo of SoftPC and it rated 1.3 on Norton SI (meaning it
was 1.3 times as fast as a 4.77 MHz XT. SoftPC certainly doesn't
have the computational speed of the Mac286, but as anyone who as
actually used a Mac286 will tell you, the screen updating is soooooo
slow on it that it is almost unusable.
The SoftPC updated the screen in a reasonable manner and seemed quite
usable for light MS-DOS activities (i.e. no compiling your next great
database application!)
And, it lists for $600 vs. $1500 for Mac286.
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