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Article #14Re: Virtual PC smokes!
From: Tom Paro
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 00:00
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Geoff Kaiser wrote: > 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 Off topic help request, For some reason I am having a problem getting the right mouse button to work under Virtual PC. I am using a Kensington Turbo Mouse and Ver5.0 driver. I tried the keyboard setup listed in VPC and got no where (non-Apple-KB) so what are you sucessful users using? Please email tparo@earthlink.net no use snarling the thread worse. THANKS Tom Paro
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fe443,26877f5391c3f10d X-Google-Attributes: gidfe443,public X-Google-Thread: 1156c9,26877f5391c3f10d X-Google-Attributes: gid1156c9,public X-Google-Thread: 1002bf,26877f5391c3f10d X-Google-Attributes: gid1002bf,public From: Tom Paro <tparo@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: Virtual PC smokes! Date: 1997/07/17 Message-ID: <33CDC6F9.126537A9@earthlink.net> X-Deja-AN: 257382041 References: <5qeimn$jlt$1@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <33CC69A8.301@MacConnect_REMOVE_THIS.com> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. Reply-To: comp.sys.mac.misc Newsgroups: sun.mac-users,ba.market.computers,comp.sys.mac.system