Originally a side project, SoftPC quickly became the main focus for the company, running PC software on workstations.
Originally developed on SPARCstations, the first customer to license the software was Intergraph whose workstation had a proprietary processor architecture.
[1] Insignia entered into a development agreement with Microsoft giving the company access to Windows source code.
Customized versions of Insignia's core emulation system were produced to this end, but the alternative NT architectures never became widely used.
Insignia sold the product line to FWB Software in October 1999 in order to focus on supplying implementations of Java for the mobile device market.