[ltp] OT: 760XL Recovery CD

[Tino Keitel]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:43:58 +0100, James Holden wrote:
> It shouldn't make a lot of difference, as it's virtualisation software. The 
> Guest OS runs directly on the CPU, not an emulated one. Hence, VMWare won't let 
> you run Windows on a Mac. All VMWare needs is plenty of RAM, but that's cheap 
> anyway these days. I wouldn't bother with Bochs or plex86 though, as they 
> emulate the CPU too.

Yes, VMware gives you the full CPU performance, but it eats memory and I/O
performance ist very lousy. The last point will make it fell a P166 like a 486
I think (comparing to my experience on a K6-2 375 MHz/128 MB RAM).

Regards,
Tino

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