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Re: It's MY computer, not Bill's!



on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:00:06PM -0500, MaD dUCK (madduck@madduck.net) wrote:
> also sprach Robert Tucker (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 10:14:44PM -0800):
> > Ok... Now, what is vmware? And pvm? I see I have a lot of
> > memorization to do. I have two other computers (both 486's) and I
> > plan to initially net them and leave them W95. What is the general
> > outline of using a Linux machine to run Windows games?
> 
> vmware allows you to run windoze on top of linux. or any operating
> system as a matter of fact. 

Not so fast.  Many OSs which run on x86 hardware.  Not all.  Though
support is improving.  BeOS took a while to get up.  OS/2 still isn't
supported.  Not sure about Amiga.  VMWare's website has a pretty good
rundown though.

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