On 2011-09-10, Tom wrote: > Dual-booting or multi-booting is one good option. Another would be to use a > virtual machine. Win98 might even be fine in a virtual machine on fairly > low-spec physical machines. Mostly legacy stuff opens just fine in > LibreOffice.
Win98 is lightweight and is fine for virtual machines, as far as you make sure it has ACPI enabled. Some virtual machines are not detected by the windows setup as ACPI-compliant and this will make Win98 be CPU-intensive, because it does not use the ACPI idle instructions and relies on busy waiting instead. According to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/186111 the setup parameter is /P J Also, please note there's a bug in Windows 98 NDIS that causes a protection error in 2.2 Ghz or faster CPUs, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312108 But I wonder if there are non-official fixes for the NDIS bug around the Internet. -- Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
