Author: Keith Evans
Date: 09:48:16 01/10/02
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On January 10, 2002 at 12:32:27, Ed Panek wrote: >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 Do you mean VMware? As far as I know VirtualPC is a program which allows you to run those PC OS's on a Macintosh. Keith
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