Re: Unanswered Questions From MacWorld for Microsoft

Jon Forrest wrote:
> I went to MacWorld yesterday. Very nice.
>
> But, for those departments or individuals
> who aren't willing to completely switch to MacOS,
> Microsoft should have been prepared to answer
> the following questions:
>
> 1) How can you boot Windows on an InteliMac?
> Since an InteliMac doesn't have a PC-style BIOS I can
> see how booting Windows might be a problem. Assuming
> Windows has drivers for the hardware, running Windows
> shouldn't be a big deal.

I'm sure it will be technically possible, but only as an unsupported hack. I
doubt either Apple or Microsoft will ever want to support it.

> 2) Will Microsoft Virtual PC for the Mac be modified
> so that you can run Windows on top of MacOS on
> an InteliMac? This would be an interesting approach
> since the performance penalty of instruction emulation
> suffered by the current version of Virtual PC would
> disappear.

Emulation will still be pretty dang slow; vmware, for example, is pretty much
a dog even if you're running two Intel-based OSes.

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Tom Holub (tom_holub@LS.Berkeley.EDU, 510-642-9069)
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