Author: George Sobala
Date: 10:17:43 02/13/03
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On February 13, 2003 at 03:09:32, Ed Schröder wrote: >Somebody noticed me on this: > >http://f23.parsimony.net/forum50826/messages/60293.htm > >It's seems to work with VMware that emulates an older OS, the costs of the >emulation: a 5-10% speed loss. > >http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/ws_features.html > >Ed VMWare is indeed wonderful - I use the Linux version on my mail/music-server to run Windows chessprograms on ICC, amongst other things. VMWare doesn't emulate operating systems - it creates a "virtual i386 PC in a window" in which you can install the operating system of your choice. (You need to own the operating system you are installing). It runs on Linux, Win/NT Win/2000 and Win/XP and can run DOS, all versions of Windows, Linux and FreeBSD (and one or two others I think). Thus I run a 64M version of NT on my 192M Linux system - and for a chess program the speed loss is only about 5%. Brilliant compatibility for anything but a program that needs a 3d accelerator graphics card, rock solid stable, can't say enough good things about it. The PROBLEM with VMWare as a solution for Rebel is cost: it is not freeware or shareware, but payware - nowadays to the tune of about $300 I believe. I was lucky and bought it when the hobbyist price was $79 or so - but only have the Linux license, not XP.
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