i'm thinking of saving myself some money and buying VPC without the OS since i have copy of NT. has anyone tried this?
no windoze flames please.
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jpu
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win NT on VPC
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I've run Win2k with decent results. I would think the latest rev of NT should work; they are pretty close kin. I don't think you'll find too many people running NT, these days. One problem, I believe, is that NT predates USB, so you wouldn't be able to gain access to USB devices on the Mac, other than the keyboard and mouse.
Yep, works just fine.
In fact, the fact that NT4 has relatively light system requirements means it runs comparitively fast, though I can't remember if the VPC extensions work with it.
In fact, the fact that NT4 has relatively light system requirements means it runs comparitively fast, though I can't remember if the VPC extensions work with it.
I played around with Bochs and NT4, just one more NT4-related issue than an emulation issue, but if you have an NT4 install disc, you're going to have to do a lot of patching. It seemed to me that in order to get most current software to install on it, I needed to pretty much upgrade all the way to SP 6A in order to run much of anything.
But yeah, NT4 does have pretty light requirements, which is good.
But yeah, NT4 does have pretty light requirements, which is good.
Indeed, it's amazing the number of updates required. What I always thought was the funniest, though, was the fact that the version of IE that shipped with NT4 (2.x or something) is so old Microsoft's own site won't let it in to download the updates you need to get a newer browser.mkrishnan said:
Netscape's site, on the other hand, would still allow it to connect and download a version of that browser, so you literally had to download and install Netscape if you wanted to upgrade IE.
I always thought that was particularly sad. It also illustrates the unwise nature of tying your entire upgrade mechanism to your overly integrated web browser. At least Software Update doesn't require a browser at all to function, so it'll keep working as long as Apple leaves it there.