On 1/4/19 12:30 PM, T wrote:
On 1/4/19 10:23 AM, wrote:
I have many great 16 bit apps that I run in a virtual machine running
Windows XP . Stuff created in QB45 and Visual Basic v3 .


I adore virtual machines.Â* My base system is Fedora Linux and I have
all kinds of VM running various version of Windows, Linux,
DOS, etc..Â* May host machine backs up the virtual hard drive and I
have wonderful restore capabilities.Â* If mess something up
on a VM, I wipe the virtual hard drive and restore from backup.
Problem solved.

The easy backup / restore definitely is one of the advantages of a VM.
Also, a VM could be used to get around software not running on new hardware.

I really, really don't get folks that dual boot their computers.
What a pain in the ass to go back and forth, not to mention a
house of cards.

I had a dual boot system once. It got where it wouldn't boot anything. I
suspect it was a victim of corporate paranoia (some software overwriting
the boot area of the disk with its "protection" (assume you're a thief)
junk).

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