<< I forgot about being able to partition (sorry, old school) and run different OS versions on the machine. >>
When people talk about running Virtual Machines they are not referring to partioning the hard disk and choosing to boot up one version or another. Instead, they're talking about always booting to Windows 7 and then electing to run one or more different operating systems as virtual machines. These are simultaneous sessions that run "in a window" on your Windows 7 desktop. You can think of them as remote desktop sessions except that the remote computer is created (in software) inside the memory of your own computer. It's a powerful and extremely cool technology with many important applications. I would personally consider it overkill if your only need was to run R:Base for DOS. For that, I'd just use a 32 bit version of Windows that can still run the old DOS software,. -- Larry
