Re: VPC Officially Dead
- From: Paul Power <paulkpower@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:22:26 -0800 (PST)
On Dec 16, 7:13 pm, Fred Horvat <f...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Last week it was announced that VPC for the Mac 7.03 was the end of the line
for the product. Microsoft will not create a patch to fix any issues with
OSX 10.5 Leopard.
It was reported herehttp://www.macobserver.com/article/2007/12/12.10.shtml
It is not any surprise to me that Microsoft decided not to put any more
effort in the product. There will be no more PPC Macs made and if anything
a shrinking base of PPC Macs being retired as machines get older and as
users purchase Intel machines.
I'll continue to use VPC on my machine as I have the need to run a few
Windows apps. Plus I test out Linux distros and other odd Ooperating
Systems to see how they are. There are other products that work with
Leopard on a PPC Mac but their emulated speed is not as good a VPC. I have
iEmulator and I did test it out under Leopard and it worked fine. A bit
slower than VPC but a usable product if you don't need USB. Plus it is $20
for existing VPC users. Then there are Open Source products BOCHS and QEMU
one could use.
Well, Fred, you got it WRONG again. VPC is NOT dead. Let me
repeat...>VPC IS NOT DEAD!! You really do have to stop trying to kill
support off for this product.
Try reading the article again. Microsoft has released a statement
stating that there will be no support for VPC running on a Mac that is
running 10.5.x (Leopard).
**VPC is STILL supported on PPC's running 10.2.8-10.4.x for VPC 7 and
Mac OS 9.2.2, 10.1.5, 10.2.1- 10.4.x for VPC 6
.
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