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Simultanious OS''s

This is where you can discuss your homework, family, just about anything, make strange sounds and otherwise discuss things which are really not related to the Lancer-series. Yes that means you can discuss other games.

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Sirius

Post Mon Jan 24, 2005 2:22 am

Simultanious OS''s




Vanderpool Technology, or VT, is part of Intel's new strategy to provide users with benefits other than performance increases. VT will allow users to create virtual environments on their PCs in order to run separate operating systems on the same PC and it would also permit IT managers to upload patches or upgrades to one portion of the PC while the user runs their work applications on another environment.

Intel will build support for VT into the chipsets it plans release around the middle of 2005, but hadn't planned to activate that technology in processors until 2006, around the time Microsoft is expected to release its long-awaited update to the Windows XP operating system, code-named Longhorn. At last September's Intel Developer Forum, President and Chief Operating Officer Paul Otellini said that VT would not become a mainstream technology until operating system support was available.


I think that it would be neet to have multiple OS's working at once. However, I'm not going to go with Intel just cause of this new technology that "Might" work... However, if AMD would support it on their new dual core 64-bit procs, I might just have to get it


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Esquilax

Post Mon Jan 24, 2005 2:55 am

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.

Sirius

Post Mon Jan 24, 2005 2:59 am

I don't think that it said it will be a patch. More like Windows XP was an Upgrade to 2000


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freighter fighter

Post Mon Jan 24, 2005 3:06 am

sig once per page sirius, you should know by now

Esquilax

Post Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:39 pm

Technically an upgrade *is* a patch, albeit a large one .

arton alpha

Post Mon Jan 24, 2005 8:43 pm

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.

Sirius

Post Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:15 am

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?

H.Q. Victor

Post Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:20 am

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.

Aravis

Post Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:57 pm

I just partition mine, and install on the diff partitions..

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