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|    Tommi Koivula to Robert Wolfe    |
|    Too much hassle. WAS: vinyl resting plac    |
|    02 Mar 20 19:41:20    |
      REPLY: 1:116/17 048f69e6       MSGID: 2:221/6 5e5d467d       CHRS: UTF-8 2       TZUTC: 0200       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2019-12-05       * Replying to a msg in fidotest (fidotest)              Hi Robert.              29 Feb 20 17:55, you wrote to me:               RW> -> I virtualized my very old running OS/2 computer about year or two ago.       It is               RW> -> running under VMWare now, and it is very stable. No phone lines, no       special        RW> -> hardware, so it was quite painless conversion. Might be possible to       run it i               RW> -> VPS too, but I haven't tried.               RW> I never got ArcaOS or ECS to virtualize properly under VMWare, which is        RW> why I use VirtualBox to handle that.              I just found the ISO of ArcaOS 5.0 from the internet. Installed it into VMWare       Workstation 15 running in Windows 7 64bit in my Dell E7250 laptop.              Installed and runs fine. And so far it looks quite ok. Better than       Ecomstation. :)              'Tommi              --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707        * Origin: nntps://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 18/200 90/1 203/0 221/0 1 6 242 360 227/114 229/101       SEEN-BY: 229/426 452 616 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/5003 292/789       SEEN-BY: 292/854 8125 317/3 322/757 335/364 342/200 423/81 633/280       PATH: 221/6 1 292/854 229/426           |
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