Re: Buying new computer - what operating systems will work with Xywrite

[Lisa Kleinholz lkleinholz@xxxxxxxx]

FWIW, I have not had the easy experience on a Mac described below. As
far as I know, the new Mac with the Intel chip does not support Virtual
PC and VPC is not going to upgrade to support new Mac. At the very
least make sure it will work.

Parallels runs several flavors of Windows and their documentation says
you can share files and run drivers under them.

However, I have semi-installed DOS and though Xy seems to work very
nicely, I have yet to install drivers to read my floppy disk drive, CD
drive, etc. and cannot easily move files back and forth between Mac and
DOS/Parallels side. This next week, a PC guy is going to try to get
those drivers installed and do a full DOS install (thanks to Patricia
who sent me DOS 6.22 floppies!).

Another caveat: Parallels tech support is so bad as to be virtually
non-existent, and their documentation is confusing and incomplete. If
you do get it, upgrade to their newest version, as they are constantly
improving the program.

That said, in every other way I LOVE my MacBook, and if it weren't for
XyWrite my transition would be total.

Lisa


--- flash  wrote:

> Avrom,
>
> My advice is: get a Mac. It'll never ask you for a driver. Once you
> get
> used to the Mac, you won't look back.
>
> For running Xy, install virtual w2k professional (still available at
> Amazon through resellers). In my opinion, w2k (= NT5) was the last
> and
> most stable build of a particular series (NT) of Windows OS, before
> MS
> redesigned the OS with all new bugs and all new missing dlls. The
> 'new'
> features in Vista almost bring it up to Mac OS 7.
>
> My virtual w2k immediately recognized the Mac's network card and
> printer, and you can share folders between Mac OS X and virtual w2k.
>
> Or see the previous thread on using Parallels in Mac OS X.
>
> 
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