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In article <B11088A9966874AE6@wcbs.demon.co.uk>,
dave@wcbs.demon.co.uk (Dave Porter) wrote:

>Does anyone have any experience with Soft windows?

Yes.  I am using 4.1 on a 7200/90 and would certainly like to hear from
other users too.

It runs Turnpike, Eudora 3.1, MSIE 4.0 quite successfully

Booting up is slow (and the turbo start option can cause problems of
corruption, requiring you to run ScanDisk which comes with the package as
part of the standard Windows setup).  

Downloading from the web on the Mac side to port across has not worked with
programmes for me, although it works for files. You can set up a shared
area with the Mac (called a "folder" when seen from the Mac and a "disk"
when seen from SoftWindows).  It is tempting to use this for programmes,
since the download is much faster when no emulation intervenes, and should
work with PCExchange or MacLink, but I have had no luck and just have to
revert to the old custom of making coffee and hoping the line won't fail
while SoftWin chugs away via a 28,800 modem.

If you have a faster machine than 90MHz your experience will be better but
then you have probably become used to your new speed and won't enjoy
running at a third of its capacity.  (Hmm, have you got 270MHz?  SoftWin
should appear to run at 90MHz, which is what I am accustomed to on the Mac
side.)

Although I am registered with Insignia I haven't heard that version 5.0 is
available.  So maybe customer support is not that splendid.  Do experiment
as much as possible in the early days, if you get it, and use the 90 day
tech support intensively if you need to, because that is all you will get.

---  I am thinking of cheap PC.  Can't see any portable cheap enough and
don't wish to be totally barricaded in with equipment.  So I would be
interested to hear how you get on if you do use version 5.0

Keith



Keith Crook
keith@valperga.demon.co.uk