On May 22, 2018, at 8:24 AM, William Micou <derby...@mac.com <mailto:derby...@mac.com>> wrote:
> I’m sure you would have thought of this, but are there still programs that > emulate a vitual Window machine? What were those - Boot Camp? VM Ware? I > haven’t heard or read much about those lately. There are a bunch of ways. Boot Camp uses a separate partition on your Mac’s hard drive to turn it into a dual-boot machine. Using Boot Camp, your machine is either a Mac or a Windows machine. Not both at the same time. You need a copy of Windows to use it. VirtualBox, Parallels and Fusion all run Windows as a virtual machine. All these need a copy of Windows to work. With any of these, your machine is a Mac and Windows machine at the same time. I use VirtualBox because it’s free. I have Windows and Fedora Linux images on my machine that run under VirtualBox. I rarely use it. Another approach is to use one of the Wine variants. Wine lets you run many Windows programs without having Windows. It tries to map Windows operating system calls to their Mac equivalents. It’s kind of like magically turning Windows programs into Mac programs. The free open source route is WineBottler. A commercial version is Crossover Mac. Neither works with all Windows software, so you’d better check their compatibility lists before spending time messing with them. I’ve tried both, and they both work pretty well—when they work. Crossover was far and away the better of the two. But, I haven’t used either one recently. L^2 PS/ Wine started out as WINE under Linux, standing for Wine Is Not An Emulator. --- Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> Where a calculator like the ENIAC today is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh only 1 1/2 tons. — Popular Mechanics March 1949
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