Re: CHAT: browsers

On Tuesday 11 February 2003 03:45 am, you wrote:
> Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
> > But what's the point of it? Running Windows under Windows? ;)))
>
> Well, one purpose is when you want to test software under lots of different
> versions of Windows.  It's much better than having a dedicated box per
> version. In the Unix world, you might want to test under several Linuxes
> and BSDs.
I prefer bochs myself.
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
Apparently bochs and plex86 are going to be merged:
http://plex86.sourceforge.net/

_And_ there are several other emulation packages -
pcemu http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcemu/
x86emu http://www.scitechsoft.com/products/developer/x86_emulator.html

It's a lot of fun playing around with virtual machines ....

>
> > Well, that's just because people don't seem to pay attention in your
> > parts of the world.
>
> But we did invent the millihelen, the practical unit of beauty: viz.,
> enough beauty to launch a single ship.
And if you do a TCO on Helen of Troy, you'll find most of those ships sank.
At least, going by the tale of Ulysses ... ;^(

Wesley Parish

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You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."