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Re: Finally: Hebrew under VMware!



Hmm, I quite disagree with you...

According to the Minimum requirment from MS, the minimum hardware needed
for Win 2000 is:

A. Pentium II 266
B. 64 MB RAM (from a field test - definately needed 128MB RAM)
C. 1 GB empty space..

Now, if we'll take vmware, which gives you the performance of half of
your real machine (eg: P-II 400 128 MB RAM works in VMWare as P200, 64MB
RAM), then you'll need P-II 500, 128MB RAM - which is hardly found on
many users PC's...

I mostly recommend to use Win NT 4.0. It doesn't supports PnP natively,
nor USB, but what it runs - vmware runs as well...

Hetz


Eli Marmor wrote:
> 
> > I have a Hebrew-Enabled Lose98 on my Toshiba Laptop (4080XCDT) and I
> > don't think I need or can overload its 2Gb reserved for Lose32 with
> > Lose2000.
> 
> I recommended to prefer Win2000 as a VMware guest over Win98, not
> because of Hebrew issues, but because of the following reasons:
> 
> 1. According to various reports in mailing lists and newsgroups of
>    VMware, NT runs much better and faster under VMware than Win98
>    and 95. Win2000 is the latest and the best version of NT.
> 2. Win2000 is stabler than any other MS OS, even in its beta 3.
> 3. The main advantage of Win98/95 over NT is the better support
>    for more hardware devices, plug&play, etc. Since VMware
>    emulates a closed and specific hardware, which is fully
>    supported by both Win95/98 AND NT (now including Win2000), this
>    reason is not relevant anymore.
> 4. As Linux users, some of us aren't used to the instability of
>    Win9X, so NT may be more familiar for us.
> 
> Of course, if your disk is too small for Linux+Win2000, than these
> points are not relevant for you. In addition, don't forget that
> Win2000 requires a little more RAM than Win95/98. But once you
> have enough memory, Win2000 will outperform Win9X.
> 
> P.S.  I never installed VMware, nor Win2000 (although I received
> the 7 CDROMs beta3), and all the things I wrote here are based on
> feedback and impressions of other people.
> --
> Eli Marmor
> 
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