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Article #12Re: Virtual PC smokes!
From: Geoff Kaiser
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 00:00
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Bill Vaughan wrote: >"...This ought to provide some ammo for people trying fight their employer's urge to switch platforms." I agree. I'm the sole Mac user in my company, and VPC allows me to talk to the Windows NT network 100%. Over I'm amazed at what it can do. I've been using VPC for 3 days and I'm amazed at it's seamless integration; at work I've been connecting to our NT network via the Mac's ethernet port, and using Office 97 and Outlook, Explorer, Netscape Communicator, etc. just like a real PC. It's pretty slow on my 7600/120, but the point is it works! It needs Photoshop-like RAM amounts, but I always keep in mind I'm carrying two OSes at once on my Mac, so it makes sense that it needs lots of ram. Overall I'm very impressed at how Win 95 (and our NT network) have no idea that they're not talking to an intel box. Like I said, the integration is seamless; for example: when I have an audio CD playing in Windows' CD player app, I can flip back to the Mac, open the Mac's CD player, skip a track, go back to Windows and its CD player has skipped the track just as if I had done it there! Wow. Overall, Connectix has done an amazing engineering feat here. GK
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fe443,26877f5391c3f10d X-Google-Attributes: gidfe443,public X-Google-Thread: 10e148,26877f5391c3f10d X-Google-Attributes: gid10e148,public X-Google-Thread: 1002bf,26877f5391c3f10d X-Google-Attributes: gid1002bf,public X-Google-Thread: 1156c9,26877f5391c3f10d X-Google-Attributes: gid1156c9,public From: Geoff Kaiser <SuperKais@MacConnect_REMOVE_THIS.com> Subject: Re: Virtual PC smokes! Date: 1997/07/16 Message-ID: <33CC69A8.301@MacConnect_REMOVE_THIS.com> X-Deja-AN: 257167250 References: <5qeimn$jlt$1@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> Organization: None Newsgroups: sun.mac-users,ba.market.computers,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc