Re: [PLUG] Laptop Recommendations

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 02:26  PM, Paul wrote:

> How much does the Virtual PC software cost?

A copy of VPC 6 with XP H or Win 98 is $200
With XP Pro or W2K is $220
With DOS is $110
I think VPC alone is $100.

Virtual PC itself is cheap - Windoz licenses cost money... and VPC 
really is a Pentium emulator. You can install any version of an x86 OS 
(including Linux versions) on it that you want. Obviously, it's not 
supported by the VPC vendor Connectix, but it does work -- I use it 
with NT (W2K) to support a number of my home automation devices that 
only have Windoz GUIs.

The expensive versions of VPC are those which include the disk images 
of one of the Microsoft OS's... and it's the fastest way in the world 
to install W95/98/NT/2000 etc.

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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