"Robert G. Brown" wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Michael Cunningham wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> There are several other interesting options as well. You can obviously
> install the win9X dual boot and run linux on it when you're not gaming
> or using MS office or whatever it is you still need Win9X for. Then
> there is VMware (IIRC), which I recently saw on a friend's box and which
> allows you to run Win9X as a linux task in a window. Very nifty, and
> for $100 even moderately inexpensive. If it runs on a dual, you could
> actually USE one processor under linux while running windows on the
> other and task switch with a few mouse clicks (or whatever they use to
> key between the environments).
This is what I do currently on my dual system, and I find it works very well.
Win98 will take its cycles from just one processor in this setup, although
support for multiple processors for virtual OS's that can use them (like NT)
is forthcoming.
-- Stephen
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