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Marty[_2_] Marty[_2_] is offline
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Default OT but very useful...

Capt. JG wrote:
"Larry" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in
easolutions:

Nice, but you still have to boot into what you want right? The
emulation I have allows you to switch back and forth on the fly and
you can share data back and forth. I don't find it to drag it much,
but it's a desktop box. I'm not sure why I would need to switch back
and forth either with boot or emulation if I had it on my boat. Seems
to me, I'd be on one or the other, depending on what runs natively.


My poor little Atom N270 1.6Ghz 1MB RAM 2 pound netbook isn't OS magic....

Yeah, on 1GB of RAM you only run one OS at a time....



I just booted up my Virtual PC emulator on my Windoz box. I use it very,
very rarely to test suspect software. It's actually not bad. Oh, so my
point... I only have 1 gig of ram. It's a fairly old system... P4, 3.06 gh.



Only 1 gig? "640k ought to be enough for anyone",, Lordy, when I went
to college if we had a machine with a full kilobyte we were doing well....

Cheers
Martin