Re: Various virtual machines compared

[Jon P xywrite4@xxxxxxxx]

My VirtualPC 2007 balked at Win 3.11 and DOS 6. Wouldn't run them. That might be my installation error. But when I did get Windows 98 running under it, communication with Windows 7 was agonizingly slow--something Ed Mendelson also complains about with his Wordperfect DOS workarounds. Whereas XP Mode is instant.


I see why Harry wants Tame. It makes XY's display a lot more flexible with fonts, window sizes,
number of lines onscreen and other customizations we weren't expecting back in the DOS days.

I'm still having intermittent cursor arrow-key movement problems and am trying to figure out what
triggers them, but otherwise Tame under XP Mode runs smoothly for me.

Jon Pareles

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> From: "Kari Eveli" 
> Subject: Re: Various virtual machines compared
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:38:21 +0200
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> This may be. But why try to "Tame" an unwilling Windows
> version, when you could run DOS under a virtual machine
> without any need for it? After all, DOS does not need to be
> tamed. The DOS/Win 3.11 w/DOS boxes under VirtualPC works
> (under XP 32-bit at least) without any taming and just as a
> dedicated DOS/Win 3.11 machine would.