Re: Cursor movement in Mac-XP

[Joseph Fisher kzfisher@xxxxxxxx]

With Virtual PC 5 and 6 (possibly earlier versions?) if you have the
hard drive real estate you can create different Virtual PC's using
different OS - You could find the fastest response by using VPC with a
DOS box, however if you need to use Windows too, I have heard that G3 &
G4 Macs operate best with Windows 98 SE on VPC. My experience is that
XP dogs out pretty bad on my 800MHz G4 PowerBook. Of course now that
Microsoft owns Virtual PC it may never run it well :)  I am getting
ready to reformat my drive and I plan on installs of DOS and Win 98
Virtuals to run XyWrite and a few other "can't live without"
DOS/Windows programs.

Joe Fisher


On Tuesday, November 25, 2003, at 06:30 PM, Harry Binswanger wrote:
> Preliminary report: I got Xy running under XP-emulation on the Mac. XP
> doesn't recognize PIF files, so I had to get a C:\ prompt and launch
> Editor.exe via its simulation of DOS.
> Cursor movement was slow and jerky. But I haven't tried doing the
> settings that might speed it up. I'll look on XySearch to see what
> they are, but I'm not optimistic. I'll probably get Virtual PC to do a
> Win98 emulation, and run it from there.
>
> Harry Binswanger
> hb@xxxxxxxx