----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas J. Hamman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Win/DOS Emulator
> newer games and larger Win95 programs to work reliably. And vmware is a
> commercial program (Dosemu and Wine are free and open source) which is supposed
> to allow you to actually run two operating systems at the same time. I don't
> know how stable and fast that would be on a typical computer though.
What's typical?
On a faster machine (P-300 or better) with lots of memory (128MB or better) it works
very well, with a few limitations. My local LUG demo'ed VMWare at a recent computer
fest. We had NT running in a virtual machine in Linux; both OS-es were running
programs at the same time. NT blue-screened. We closed NT, then restarted NT and the
program running in Linux never skipped a beat. That drew oohs and ahhs from the crowd.
You can actually have the virtual machine be a virtual machine or have it run from an
existing partition if you have already installed the "other" OS. It is pretty amazing
software, well worth US$100 if you have a need for it (like running IE5.0 on your
Linux box?)
Hoyt
