Re: Various virtual machines compared

["Kari Eveli" lexitec@xxxxxxxx]

Jordan wrote:

>Yes, maybe so, but even that won't resolve your printing issues
(USB + makes / models unknown in the heyday of Xy), whereas NB
can make this transparent and a non-issue.

If a modern NB version suits you, then you should of course use it. Even NB 4 for DOS was too rigid
for my liking, so I am still mainly working with NB 3 for DOS. The printer issue should be resolved
by hardware. I have a LJ 2100TN attached to a parallel port, works perfectly from VPC. It should not
be too difficult to buy a second-hand parallel office printer with enough mileage left. Or output a
PS file and distill it in Acrobat or equivalent.

Bill wrote:
>Kari, have you migrated any of your solutions to Win 8 ?

No. Basically it cannot be done (or could theoretically using double virtualization). Win 8 uses
Hyper V, and Hyper V and Virtual PC are incompatible.

>and there is also the possibility of FreeDOS along with Virtual Box or similar.

FreeDOS has some great utilities (like KEYB) that can used to enhance MS-DOS, but FreeDOS cannot run
Win 3.11. So I would simply avoid it.

Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxx

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