>How do you even manage to run a D5 Windows application on a Mac system >anyways? Is that even possible and if yes, how?
The Mac has had more than one version of emulation software that lets you run the Windows OS under Mac OS. Microsoft has had Virtual PC out for a number of years (free software you can download directly from Microsoft), which lets you install an entirely different versions of Windows, or DOS, or Linux on your machine. These Virtual PC's can then be run in a window (or full screen) at the same time you are running the host OS. I have had to use Virtual PC in order to migrate to Vista. There is still a lot of software I need to run that will not run under Vista, but the software runs fine in a Virtual PC running under Vista. VMWare is a company that specializes in this kind of thing. They sell commercial software that lets companies with a large number of servers to run them in virtual mode unders a much smaller number of higher power boxes. They also offer a free version of VMWare that runs under Linux to all Linux users to install and run Windows under Linux. We will probably see a lot of major moves to virtualization in the near future. This technology offers a lot of potential to eliminate backward compatibility issues which almost always follow OS updates. Glenn Lawler www.incodesystems.com
