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Re: Is the iBook2 really good?



On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:38:06AM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Russell Williams wrote:
> 
> > Is there also a possibilty to run Windows apps on the
> > iBook? (either though Linux or MacOS)
> 
> There's VirtualPC from Connectix, which (at least as of v3, haven't tried
> v4) does work in Mac-On-Linux, although a bit slowly (but VPCv3 seems to
> be slow in general). Insignia used to sell a PC emulator for MacOS (and
> others), but seems to have left the emulator business, leaving (far as I
> know) only VPC.

It should also be possible to use one of the x386 emulators directly under
linux, which should be a bit faster than using mol, i think, altough maybe
they may be less compatible.

bochs comes to mind, and also twine was supposed to offer this possibilities,
but i don't knwo what happened to it. 

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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