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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Study" data-source="post: 530390" data-attributes="member: 3889"><p>I ran Virtual PC and Windows 95 on my 350 megahertz blue-and-white tower, for a few months. The machine was running OS 9. I wanted to learn the ins and outs of Windows — that version, at least.</p><p></p><p>I downloaded the usual — free — Windows anti-virus/spyware junk on the Mac side and dragged them over to Windows before going on the net with Windows IE and a couple of other Windows browsers. I also downloaded a couple of free word processors. I didn't use it for games; that would have been hopeless. At that time, I think the machine had 256 megabytes of RAM.</p><p></p><p>I had fun with it learning the registry tricks and playing with RegEdit, turning all the icons into Mac versions.</p><p></p><p>It wasn't hopelessly slow, and I was surprised at the ease of copying stuff from the Mac side to the Windows side, and vice versa.</p><p></p><p>The best part was keeping a virgin 95 as a backup. If I badly screwed it up while learning it, all I had to do was trash the one I was using and drag in the other one.</p><p></p><p>Back then, the word was that the best way to learn Windows is on a Mac because with Virtual PC, Windows is as simple to reload as the calculator app.</p><p></p><p>I'd say go for it. Virtual PC will run faster on your machine than it did on my older one, and it wasn't slow enough to be unusable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Study, post: 530390, member: 3889"] I ran Virtual PC and Windows 95 on my 350 megahertz blue-and-white tower, for a few months. The machine was running OS 9. I wanted to learn the ins and outs of Windows — that version, at least. I downloaded the usual — free — Windows anti-virus/spyware junk on the Mac side and dragged them over to Windows before going on the net with Windows IE and a couple of other Windows browsers. I also downloaded a couple of free word processors. I didn't use it for games; that would have been hopeless. At that time, I think the machine had 256 megabytes of RAM. I had fun with it learning the registry tricks and playing with RegEdit, turning all the icons into Mac versions. It wasn't hopelessly slow, and I was surprised at the ease of copying stuff from the Mac side to the Windows side, and vice versa. The best part was keeping a virgin 95 as a backup. If I badly screwed it up while learning it, all I had to do was trash the one I was using and drag in the other one. Back then, the word was that the best way to learn Windows is on a Mac because with Virtual PC, Windows is as simple to reload as the calculator app. I'd say go for it. Virtual PC will run faster on your machine than it did on my older one, and it wasn't slow enough to be unusable. [/QUOTE]
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