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by raw_anon_1111 221 days ago
That wasn’t an HP product. It was written by Insignia Solutions and ran on multiple platforms.

I had it on my Mac LCII in 1992. It barely ran well enough to run older DOS IDEs for college. Later I bought an accelerator (40Mhz 68030) and it ran better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftPC

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IIRC, I had that on my Atari ST as well, and it very slowly booted Dos 3.3 and a few basic programs.. enough for me to use turbo-C or Watcom C to compile a basic .c program to display a .pcx file.
Right, Insignia. That was it. But it was a product that HP resold in some fashion.