Re: [TCLUG:12618] using VMWare

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Quoting Dan Debertin (danield@bitstream.net):
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > I'm thinking about getting VMWare for my Linux box. It's a Pentium Pro 200
> > with 96 MB RAM. Would expect VMWare to run Win95 with reasonable
> > performance with this config? I don't use Win95 much so I'm willing to
> > live with a performance penalty.
> 
> I tried VMWare on my 400Mhz, 96MB laptop -- it took perhaps 10 minutes to
> boot Win98. I was not impressed. There is a free trial available if you
> want to try it yourself, though. If you can tolerate the drag, have fun...

I have a dual PIII-550 with 512Mb RAM and I am VERY impressed with VMWare. I
run Win98 on it with several major applications running and they are speedy.
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