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Date:      Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:28:14 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        nsayer@kfu.com, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VmWare Performance
Message-ID:  <v04210106b4c8dd7e9d87@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <38A301E7.AFAD78D3@sftw.com>
References:  <3.0.5.32.20000209101950.0096aa30@midwest.net> <20000209192034.I39387@florence.pavilion.net> <38A301E7.AFAD78D3@sftw.com>

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At 6:22 PM +0000 2/10/00, Nick Sayer wrote:
>I have tried both NT Workstation and win98 on real partitions and win98 on a
>virtual partition. Unfortunately, a direct comparison between win98 real and
>win98 virtual is not meaningful, because the former is a PII-233 laptop, and
>the later is a K7-600 desktop machine. But that being said, the PII is much,
>much slower than the other machine.
>
>NT Workstation running on a raw partition appears to be comperable to it
>running on the same machine natively, however. That leads me to believe
>that this may be a phenomenon limited to win98.

For what it's worth, a friend of mine is running VMware under linux,
and he has mentioned that Win2000 has much better performance than
Win98.


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Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


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