Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Mon Dec 3 18:04:51 CST 2012
Arthur -- Why do you suppose you need a "real thing"? - you can have a set of dedicated VMs running on one physical box, running as good as you can have them running on separate boxes... Thank you. -- Shamil Понедельник, 3 декабря 2012, 17:21 от Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>: >Ok, I stand corrected. Maybe I just don't have the Big Box with a ton of RAM; that's not a maybe, that's a fact. All I can claim in my defense is that I run Ubuntu, Mint, and Win7 on separate boxes, and there is no comparison on performance. They are all operating simultaneously. The Linux boxes were seriously cheap; the Win7 box was a tad more expensive but still not unreasonable. Recently I decided that I also need a WinXP box, and purchased one with 2GB RAM for less than $100. Yes, it only had a 100MB hard disk, but who cares? That's way more space than installation of everything dating to that era demands. > > >However, lest you think that I am a 100% happy camper, this is not so. I still want a CP/M box and a pure DOS box too. And I don't want VMs, I want the real thing -- totally dedicated to exactly one purpose/OS. > > >A. > ><<< skipped >>> >