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Re: A general strategy for retaining XyWrite in a non-DOS world
- Subject: Re: A general strategy for retaining XyWrite in a non-DOS world
- From: Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 22:16:57 +0100
One reason I support Kari's approach is that I
don't think it makes sense to get involved with
old hardware. Also because VM technology is just
getting better and better. Apparently there are
some things about Hyper-V in Win 8 that, along
with the latest hardware, give even better
performance than we have been experiencing with
VirtualBox and VMware. This apparently is a field
where things are actively moving forward. The
ability to save a machine state in software seems
to me infinitely preferable to dealing with a
hunk of aging and possibly temperamental
hardware. (That said, there are those who just
love to tinker with old cars . . . . and what's the matter with that?)
I also personally would deeply resent having to
use a separate machine. I really do want it all-in-one.
I do think VMware is faster with W2K than
VirtualBox, at least as I use it under Win 8.
I'm not really worried about XyWrite over the
next ten years, but after that? Will VMs still be
supporting W2K twenty and thirty years from now?
Maybe I shouldn't worry. Who knows? Maybe 20
years from now Nota Bene will finally work to
XyWriters' universal satisfaction?
At 26/05/2014 15:08, you wrote:
Harry,
I am not quite sure what you mean by
configuration jiggering inherent in
virtualization. My experience is one of ultimate
hardware stability vis-à-vis the guest operating
system as it is invariable being part of the
virtualization platform. For some purposes it
may be meaningful to maintain or build a
separate DOS machine, but I do not see the point
of maintaining W2K or XP machines as they can be
more easily virtualized or emulated. I see no
slowdown in running DOS/Win 3.1: if I save the
VM's state, it is instantly available in
VirtualPC 2007. W2K in VirtualBox is almost as fast.
But if you like physical computers more than
virtual ones, then a KVM switch solution might
be for you. With quality KVM equipment it is
possible to have many systems at your
fingertips, provided they are reasonably modern.
USB connectivity makes this practical. Still
there are industrial systems for true legacy
(AT-style) hardware, but they might prove to be disappointing.
Best regards,
Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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25.5.2014 19:31, Harry Binswanger wrote:
Advantages: None of the slowdowns or configuration jiggering and
re-jiggering required for virtual machines. Low cost--zero, if you already
have such a machine in your closet.
Disadvantages: Networking is even flakier, flukier, funkier than virtual
machine settings; but then Dropbox is amazingly robust, transparent, fast.