Re: Vista hardware

[David Auerbach auerbach@xxxxxxxx]

What he said & you could also just run DOS and skip the Windoze layer.
On Feb 24, at 3:21 AM, flash wrote:
> Y'all,
>
> I bought an Acer tower with XP on it; I told the store I wanted the HD
> reformated to take Linux; that is, XP off, just enough drivers
> installed
> so the boot loader recognized its own CD-ROM drive. They kindly did
> so,
> but charged me for the work.
>
> In case anyone chooses to go down another road, I recently installed
> virtual pc v.7.0.1 on my Mac G4 running OS X. I chose to install
> virtual
> w2k because I'm familiar with w2k, but you can install most any
> virtual
> Windon't version including XP. This is far and away the best of the
> three solutions I have tried on the Mac (I gave up on DOSBox and
> iEmulator). The keyboard file loads and functions without errors
> (neither DOSBox nor iEmulator did). The screen driver also loads and
> functions exactly as on my real w2k machine. Screen fonts are as
> good as
> on my w2k machine, allowing for the difference between my large
> Benq LCD
> monitor on the tower and the smaller laptop monitor. I can't say
> whether
> printing works from virtual w2k as I don't use Xy to print. The
> virtual
> one is slower scrolling through long files by half, but it is as
> fast as
> I can type on the laptop keyboard. If anyone is considering buying new
> hardware anyway, Xy will run on Macs with virtual pc, and you can
> choose
> your Windon't version.


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