Re: Xy on Mac

[Caballero Carlo.Caballero@xxxxxxxx]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, flash wrote:
> I'm running VPC v7.0.1 on a Mac G4 and have installed virtual w2k. As
> others have rightly pointed out, you need not install w2k in the VPC
> environment. If you wish to run only DOS programs, you can, of course,
> install DOS alone in the VPC environment. I chose to install w2k because
> I have other apps to run, not only Xy.
[snip]
>
> Trying to get a virtual DOS-only OS to 'see' the Mac HD appears to
> present additional difficulties. It may be that Parallels hasn't solved
> the visibility problem between the two OSs so neatly as VPC has done. We
> just have to wait and see. Keep at it, Lisa--we await further news with
> baited breath.

Point about Parallels taken (from Lisa's reports so far), but no such
problem with DOS-only usage under VPC. I can move things through
peripherals as well as to and from the Mac HD at will.

>
> I'm not concerned whether Microsoft continues to support VPC or not.
> I've got it now and it runs. They can't take that away later.
>

>From a practical point of view, these things can't last forever, but the
spirit of the statement rings true. The important thing, for longevity,
is to get versions of VPC that are made for OS X. When OS X goes, Flash,
you and I may be left with VPC and OS X much the way we're left with XY
and DOS, but then who know what retrocompatibility might be yet to come
with OS X's (unforeseeable?) successor?

Carlo
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