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Baron Munchausen
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Join Date: Jan 2005
 
2005-10-19, 12:38

VPC sells many licenses on PCs, as it can run as a virtual machine running different instances and versions. Useful on a server when blended with Citrix type techology. Actually it is useful just to run anything, as it allows installs, rollbacks etc, which are useful for any PC user who has a disk trashed due to "install shield".

Does Apple need its own VPC? Why should MS NOT support VPC for Intel Macs? They get to sell another XP/Donghorn license, so why ever not? VPC could also run Linux instances with a little nudging.

Apple should know how to do this, considering they had Classic running, which AFAICT, would have been of a similar magnitude, if not harder due to the vastly different multitasking paradigms between Classic and OSX. In the case of VPC, we are talking about the similar thing to Classic, i.e. creating a virtual machine that allows another OS to run in its own memory and scheduling space with applications that can drag-drop in and out of the host system. Of course this is vastly oversimplifying, but if XP runs on Apple, but OSX can never run 'inside' windows, what machine would you rather have?
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