Re: Solaris 10 and Microsoft Virtual PC

From: Andrew J. Brehm (ajbrehm_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/27/04

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    <Steve> wrote:

    > On 2004-10-26 17:15:49 +0100, ajbrehm@gmail.com (Andrew J. Brehm) said:
    >
    > > Casper H.S. *** <Casper.***@Sun.COM> wrote:
    > >
    > >> ajbrehm@gmail.com (Andrew J. Brehm) writes:
    > >>
    > >>> Any particular place I can get it quickly from?
    > >>
    > >> You can get the current version but I think the one which is
    > >> about to be released has better support for different CPU types
    > >> (looking more at feature bits, and not as much at CPU identifiers.
    > >>
    > >
    > > It will take another few days for my new computer to arrive anyway. And
    > > then one more week to get VPC.
    >
    > I have a Mac G5 and a late beta of VPC7 and it's err, not very fast! No
    > different than VPC6 on a G4 to my subjective 'feel' tests.

    I was happy enough with 6.1 on a dual G4/450. I suppose 7.0 will feel
    faster on a G5/1600.

    > I have installed JDS2 in a VPC and it's fairly unuseable for me I'm
    > afraid - that's with 512mb allocated.

    I am patient. :-)

    > I know it's a beta but from what I've heard the gold release isn't any better.

    I am sure Microsoft will work on it.

    > I've been using QEMU for Mac OSX and it's about the same speed but more
    > fiddly to setup and install oses.

    Looking into it.

    But Office Professional includes VPC 7 and Windows XP Pro and is thus a
    good deal. 

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