Ian Clark wrote:
> Good suggestion... I haven't tried that. I imagine it would work ok.
> 
> I must say I've been afraid to, while I have valuable work on-the-go.
> Bad things used to happen with APL+Win when you tried it, so I learned
> the painful way not to. Backing-out anything with Win2000 was like
> backing your car out of a swamp. And anyway in Windows with its
> registry you could never be sure that installing two copies of the
> same app wouldn't find some sneaky way to tread on each other's toes.
> It was sheer hell shipping anything tricky we'd developed. "DLL-hell".
> 
> I'll guess I'll have to dust off my idle Toshiba laptop (which I've
> been finding excuses not to use... I'm so relieved to be rid of
> Windows). That will clinch the deal.

No need to dust off your laptop. Just install virtualbox (or similar) on 
your Mac and run windows in it. I pretty well only run windows this way.

Chris
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