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In article <3673@brchh104.bnr.ca>, beni%tglobe2.UUCP@nac.no (Beni Ruef) writes:
|> Well, the subject line says it...  We're interested in:
|> 
|> - what exists
|> - what are your experiences (positive and negative) with the product
|>   you bought and why you bought exactly THIS one
|> - prices :-(

We've been using SoftPC from Insignia Solutions to handle our DOS
emulation.

Our configuration is SPARCstation IPC's and 2's running SunOS 4.1.1,
OpenWindows 2.0 and SoftPC 2.0.

We looked into Sun's DOS Windows and found that at the time we were
looking (I believe a new version is out or due out soon) DOS Windows
didn't have EGA emulation, which we require.

Both emulators have 80287 emulation.

SoftPC has been able to run all of our PC applications (we've running
Lotus 123, AutoCAD, Flight Simulator, PCTools, Microsoft C, Pascal and
MASM, ...).  The only problem I've found is that in CGA mode, print screen
sends endless blank pages to our SPARCprinter.  Print screen in EGA mode
works fine.  We got around the CGA printing by using the window dump
feature in OpenWindows (xdpr). Furthermore, SoftPC emulates direct screen
memory manipulation.  I've heard SoftPC 3.0 is due or available and
emulates VGA.

Allan