--- In Walter Knapp <>
wrote:
> Virtual PC has been a useful piece of software for considerably
> longer back than a couple generations.
Indeed. But there is very little evidence that Connectix, and now
Microsoft, has been able to take advantage of the increased processor
speeds.
Stangely enough, running VPC 7 on my Dual G5 doesn't feel very
different from when I was running it for the first time about 7 or 8
years ago - on a much, much slower machine. This, of course, is much
due to the fact that Microsoft haven't been able to take advantage of
the G5 processor, and as far as I know they might not be very
interested in doing it either. They spent a considerable amount of time
just getting it to *run* on the G5.
> Yes, it's slower than non
> emulated, but it does work. And on things slower than a G3 iBook.
>You
> just have to
> decide if the speed tradeoff is worth it. In this case, little
> processing is involved, it's primarily file copying. And the Hi-MD is
> probably the slowest part.
I don't think so. Rob D. was saying he got about 4-6x transfers on a
lowly 286 processor, while, as I said in a reply to his post, I'm
getting about 0.3x on my Dual G5.
That's why I suggested running something as processor intensive as
SonicStage on VPC on a G3 iBook might be just a little bit too much.
The bottleneck has to be the emulation, because even though USB 1.0/1.1
is slow - it's not that slow. However, I will try running Windows 98 on
VPC - that might help a bit.
> Walt
>
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