Mac emulation (Was Re: Repair Windows XP)

In article <VA.00001161.04c0e735@nospam.aaisp.org>, Daniel James wrote:
> I really must get a Mac ...
>
Got a Mac G4 laptop for the wife last week.

> I really must try out Windows in a VM under linux, and see whether that runs
> all the things I need -- of course, I'd still need to buy a Windows licence
> for that, so there'd be no financial saving.
>
I must try that sort of thing too. With the Mac, it's been a bit of a
curates egg. Installing Win2k into the emulator environment ("Virtual PC") took
over 24 hours, with one hang in the install process. Re-starting the emulator in
mid-install (described in the help as being "equivalent to pressing the reset
button", though I normally yank the power lead) allowed the Win2k install to
continue it's merry way. This is a familiar experience from installing to real
hardware - so the emulator might be *too* good!
Actually running the emulator ... not too bad. It runs, it saves and
restores, it seems as responsive on a G4 1.5GHz as on an Athlon1.3GHz. Only
running the wife's Anglo-Russian translating dictionary-thesaurus at the moment.
Single button mice and continually having to reach for the Ctrl key to
get a right-click is very uncomfortable; in general, Jobs+Woz need a cluebat
over single-button mice.

Time to dismantle the desktop which the Win2K disc came from.

--
Aidan Karley
Aberdeen, Scotland
Written at Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:28 +0100, but posted later.
Using VA 5.51 build 315 under Windows 2000 build 2195.