[Scape]

[Elvis]

One of our programmer (Old Unix and progress) still use has is primary OS win 98!!

He is retiring soon and we had a similar project for his PC when he leave. But we finally decided to trow is PC in a bound fire when the time come!

[herbie]

"I spent $900 on this software and I shouldn't have to pay again!", says the lady running Win98 on her AMD X2 who brings her invoices in for us to print in .bmp format and then complains they're 'fuzzy' every day at 5:00 pm.

[BartSimpson]

On my new W7 machine I played with the VM ware and have had four virtual machines up at the same time: Win 98, Win 2000, Win XP, and Windows 2000 Data Center. If you want to run Ubuntu or anything else as a VM I suppose you can. Kind of fun to be able to take a trip down memory lane this way.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson wrote:

On my new W7 machine I played with the VM ware and have had four virtual machines up at the same time: Win 98, Win 2000, Win XP, and Windows 2000 Data Center. If you want to run Ubuntu or anything else as a VM I suppose you can. Kind of fun to be able to take a trip down memory lane this way.

I have VMWare desktop as well. I virtualized my work laptop, so I don't have to haul it around with me all the time. (And risk losing it) Saves a lot of desk space too.

I was thinking on doing something similar, installing every OS I have on a VM. Dos ~2 all the way to Dos 7, Win 3.1, 3.11, OS/2 2.1 .. all of 'em.

[BartSimpson]

It'd be fun! My next experiment is to vm various server OS and see if I can get them to replicate to each other.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson wrote:

It'd be fun! My next experiment is to vm various server OS and see if I can get them to replicate to each other.

It will work. I work extensively with VMWare VSphere, and I've done everything from NT 3.51 to Server 2k8 R2, Red Hat 4 to CentOS, and they all run flawless. All on the same physical hardware.

[herbie]

I had some radios that could only be accessed with IE5 and already had a Proxmox machine running Ubuntu and XP in VMs. Added Win2K (98 is just too freaking old) to access the radios and a monitor device running CentOS in another.
Funny thing, it's an ACER quad-core and it will just no way run XP, Vista or Win7 from scratch. Tried Ubuntu live and it ran just fine, so I figured I'd check out Proxmox, a Debian OS just for VMs.

[GRUMPY1]

that was actually a very interesting video. I have used the operating systems Windows 95 through window seven. the worst one I ever had was Windows millennium edition I would get two or three blue screens of death even on a fresh install.