Author: Ed Panek
Date: 09:32:27 01/10/02
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On January 10, 2002 at 09:36:16, Gerald Grimsley wrote: >Hello, I was thinking of buying a laptop (compaq, AMD, for example), then >installing Partition Magic to put a DOS operating system (i.e., DOS 5.0) on to >run some of the classic chess programs like MCPRO8, HIARCS 7.0 and the REBEL DOS >programs? Has anyone out there done this and /or do you think it would work.? >Presumably there are DOS drivers out there for the Mouse and CD ROM operations. >Thanks in advance. >Gerald Just buy Virtual PC. IT will let you run any native OS including : Linux, Solaris, Dos,win311,95,98,XP,2000,NT,ME OS2Warp from your Windows desktop. Its very easy to use and runs on top of the current windows OS. We use it here in applications support to quickly switch between almost any OS (EXCEPT MAC) to simulate users PCs immediately. It is literally The same as running the OS you choose on top of the hardware level, but without having to reboot. Ed
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