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[ale] Win4lin

On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Jonathan Feldman wrote:

> Win4Lin rocks the house.

> It's a reincarnation of the SCO DOS Merge product; it uses a "virtual
> machine" (compleat with BIOS emulation, etc) to fool Windows into
> thinking it's running on a standalone PC, when in fact it's running in
> an X window.

. . . 

> One cute thing is that you can "reboot" a crashed Windows9x session in
> about 16 seconds on my laptop when using Win4Lin; when running Windows
> natively, it takes several minutes.  Heheh.

Obviously, I'm going to have to try it out!

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After 163 days, Verizon still couln't deliver Telocity DSL.

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