[X4U] Fwd: [G5] Virtual PC 7 (one step forward, two back)

[Mike Panas]

I am running Win 98 on mine, and while initial Windows app start up is 
slow, it seems very responsive after that. I have installed Firefox and 
thunderbird and am eschewing IE and OE. So far so good (though I'm not 
in the Win environment often. It's more of a curiosity for me.)

Mike
DP G5 2G/3M/10.3.5/VPC 7

On Oct 6, 2004, at 6:55 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

>> I am running it, albeit sloooowly on my G5 DP 2G with 3M ram. I will 
>> check the "details and workaround" info, however.
>
> Somehow on my G5 2x2 w/1.5GB RAM, VPC 7.0 and WinXP SP2 seems much 
> slower than VPC3.0 and Win98 did on my G4/450 running Mac OS 8.6/G4. 
> OTOH, I'm very happy with the load that it seems to put on my G5, as 
> it's much better than I'd expected.
>
> As I mentioned the other day, one thing that will speed you up is to 
> switch from the default GUI, to the "Classic" Windows GUI.
>
> Obviously it also depends on what you're doing.  The one terminal 
> emulator I tried out last night seemed faster than some of the Mac OS 
> X native ones.  But then they're not CPU intensive apps.
>
> Does anyone know of any sites that offer advice on running other OS's 
> on VPC7?  I've tried installing BeOS 4.5, QNX, and a Linux variant so 
> far, none have worked right.
>
> I'm really wanting to try and get MS-DOS/Win3.11 and either Win95 or 
> Win98 up and running on VPC7 so I can run some old software of mine, 
> and OS/2 V3 would be nice as well.  Still the main OS's I need to be 
> able to run are WinXP and Linux for the occasional app that won't run 
> native on Mac OS X.
>
> 		Zane
>
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