Bah! Sounds like another gimmick to me, and one that will not work as planned. After all, how well would two OSes run on a single CPU? Pretty bloody poorly I imagine. It sounds like something that would only be of use to the server/2-4 CPU PC market. Also, since when has "Longhorn" been a patch? It was supposed to be the new standalone version of Windows.
Simultanious OS´s
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I don´t think that it said it will be a patch. More like Windows XP was an Upgrade to 2000 <img src=´http://www.danasoft.com/sig/thisisfakedotcom.j ´> --------------------------------------- <A href=´http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=0&t=71´ Target=_Blank><img src=´http://www.spreadfirefox.com/c…tes/Buttons/88x31/safer.g ´></a> Edited sig <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Edited by - Finalday on 1/24/2005 8:55:36 AM
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sig once per page sirius, you should know by now
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Technically an upgrade *is* a patch, albeit a large one <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>.
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you can have multiple os´s on one system now (if you know what your doing) but not operating at once besides you would have to have a high end system for two os´s active at once esp with memory and video, hard drives, ect.
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Most people do know that you can have multiple Os´s. Thats why I called the Thread "SIMULTANIOUS Os´s". It will be cool to be able to go from Windows to Linux with a stroke of a key. CPU power is not the issue here though, its the memory. Os´s are loaded into the memory during start up, the proc would have to know in what sectors of the RAM each OS and subsidiary programs are running at. I wonder if you can reboot 1 OS wile the other is still running?
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There is a "Commander" program that will install several OS´s and let you choose which to boot into. A note if you like Linux. There is a new Distro of one that will work well in the windows enviroment,(sp) and not take a lot of resources. Read about it the other day. <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>
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I just partition mine, and install on the diff partitions..