Re: Re: [Micronet] Mac is running Windows XP

At 11:53 -0800 2006-03-17, Anthony Vann wrote:
>There was an article in MacWorld yesterday about
>this story as well:
>
>http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20060316/tc_macworld/xponmac20060316
>
>Definitely a big step forward for those wanting the best of both worlds
>though.

   And information about this approach is summarized at
<http://www.macwindows.com/>, with detailed information posted at:

   http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Main_Page

   There appears to be a great deal of community work going on to run
Microsoft Windows on Apple's new Intel-based Macs. Another site
lists a couple of different approaches that may also offer some
promise, if not of running Windows XP natively, at least of providing
a high-performance virtual machine environment:

   http://www.osxbook.com/

An excerpt:
>I reported yesterday that we (my friends Mark A. Smith and Benjamin
>Reed, and myself) had a full-fledged customized version of Knoppix
>running on the Intel-based Macintosh. Earlier, we had Linux booting
>on the Intel-based Macintosh ...
>
>We now have Windows XP running on the Intel-based Macintosh - as a
>guest operating system under the Linux version of VMware. This is
>quite exciting and promising, especially since the performance of
>Windows XP seems quite amazing ...

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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Received on Fri Mar 17 12:39:54 2006