I'm sure its fine for IT stuff, but do you find the fidelity of execution under VMware to be acceptable when testing multi-threaded real-time systems, Simon?
73, Dave, AA6YQ --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Simon Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Myself I run the excellent VMware software to host many O/S. There is a free > VMware server which you can use to test various LINUX variants, this is what > I do. > > I currently have a VISTA rc2 system as there are new soundcard API's which I > must support. > > Performance is not bad as long as you don't use the VISTA appearance, > letting your apps use the Windows standard is 40% faster or so. > > Simon Brown, HB9DRV > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Bernstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Developers tend to hold on to older machines because they must > > continue to support the older versions of Windows. >