This cannot be.

At least to the unwashed, er this one - it seems an almost incomprehensible degree of emulation, all having to treat the hdwre as if it owned it all! And do this all flawlessly, despite the inevitably coming M$ patches and Fixpacks as (no doubt still?) shall attempt to sabotage this little call and that one.

Smacks of the talking dog skit: it isn't done well, but that it's done at all..!

Don't doubt your report.. just trying to envision someone running a humongous graphics program under RH running on W2K day after day and keeping: all that data! It just.. sounds.. creepy! like watching a guy on a high-wire pushing a wheelbarrow full of puppies in a windstorm. Y'know?

Ah well.. maybe W2K IS better as claimed (!)

Windoze stability illustrated:

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_*_ = a fly about to land

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Ashton WinWary to Core

Whilst I had some gripes at Win2000 - generally it has run well & handled the abuse I dish out ok.

It is a given for me that trying to run a workstation & server on the same box no matter what type of box, is prone to disaster. I bitch about my Win2000 servers but I do awful things to them. Left alone they seem stable.

I like win2000 even more now that I have Connectix VPC & Linux installed. Is a much better setup than a split disk dual boot. I can copy the Linux pre-sized disks to my USB backup disk (or any other). These disks as defined as ext3 to Linux but just a datafile to Win2000 - VPC does a damned good job of marrying them - it is fast.

This way I can save a VPC on r/w CD or some other medium & install a new VPC with a new Linux or just copy the other one & upgrade etc: - very very flexible.

VPC even has an option that allows it to undo all changes made to the hard diak in a session (it simply runs a copy I guess).

I had heard lots of good things about Connectix - now I have tried it they seem true. Also my 1st careere was as a VM specialist with IBM back in the 360 then 370 days so have had years of indepth experience with Virtual Machine maiframes. Was also a country specialist on IBMs VRM (on the early RT (Risc Technology)). So my praise for Connectix comes from someone is knows what good VMs can do & has worked with many variants.

Cheers Doug

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