I've been told that the price rise has something to do with the earth quake
in taiwan a few days ago...
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De: Alex ZIJDENBOS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Date: samedi 9 octobre 1999 13:55
> �: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Objet: Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] vmware hardware compatibility
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 10:56:08AM +0200, Patrick Putteman wrote:
> | I've ran VMWARE on a P233 and ran Win95 quite happily.
> Don't think about
> | running WIN98 or NT because that will be just too slow.
>
> Possibly NT running off an existing disk partition will work; at least
> in my case that runs a lot faster than running it off a virtual
> disk. If you do want to run win98, you probably want to get 98lite
> (www.98lite.net) to remove Internet Explorer. It'll speed it up
> noticeably.
>
> | [...]
> | I recently read in a leading UK PC magazine (PCPLUS) that
> Vmware was a
> | clever but stupid and useless product. I don't agree! Its
> the Ideal way of
> | developing and testing cross-platform applications (or
> webpages for that
> | matter) without the need of several expensive machines. But
> then PCPLUS only
> | talks about Redhat, Suse and Debian as being THE linux distro's....
>
> Yeah... I find too many of these PC magazines biased to one thing or
> the other (usually M$). Personally, I've found vmware worth every
> penny I paid for it. Being able to run windoze on top of linux without
> rebooting, to look at the occasional word document or powerpoint file,
> is great. Even better: we have a linux box in the office which is used
> for CD burning and some web serving tasks; during the day, it is now
> also used by our administrative assistant, who is happily running NT
> through VMware in full-screen mode, without interrupting the other
> functions of the box...
>
> Make sure you have enough memory though. Since you will be running two
> (or perhaps more) OSs at the same time, you'll also need memory for
> both of them (this doesn't appear to be the right time to buy memory
> though - I have no clue what is happening to memory prices, but it
> ain't good...).
>
> -- Alex
>
