Insignia Solutions Inc will this week announce that it has developed a version of its SoftPC for all NeXT Inc’s machines, including the ones Next unveils tomorrow, September 18: the software will enable NeXT users to run most MS-DOS software as though its Unix boxes were ATs or XTs, side-by-side with NeXTstep, with copy and paste between windows: developing a version of SoftPC for NeXT is estimated to have cost Insignia between $400,000 and $500,000, a significant investment considering Next has failed to sell many boxes and has an installed base of maybe 5,000 machines; the product will sell for $600.
