Jon Galt on Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:00:13 +0100


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Re: [PLUG] Mac virtual PC


On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Kyle R . Burton wrote:

> VMWare is a virtual PC that can run [basicly] any x86 operating system
> on any other x86 operating system (I use it to run Windows XP under
> Linux).
> 
>   http://www.vmware.com/
> 
> Wine allows x86 Windows .exe programs to run [almost] nativly under Linux.
> Not everything will work, but Wine is supposed to have made alot of progress
> over the last year.
> 
>   http://www.winehq.com/
> 
> And Bochs is another x86 emulator (thougt it's not as fast as vmware).
> A few years ago I had win95 running under Bochs just fine.
> 
>   http://bochs.sourceforge.net/

Excellent, thank you!  I didn't realize how far such software had come in
the last few years.

Now I just have to decide whether to take the time to switch.

Wayne


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