OK, any strong reason to NOT use VIRTUALPC and install any other windows
    platform along your Win98, and being able to run AUTOTRAX?

Well, in the US, Virtual PC (which I didn't realize ran on PCs as well as
Macs, although it should have been obvious) is more expensive than a rather
capable used/surplus PC.  I'm not sure what personal computer ecconomics are
like outside the USA, though, so I've been pretty quiet so far...

I'd think that VPC would be subject to the same sort of "low level hardware
access" issues as newer versions of windows?

I like W98 quite a bit.  It's pretty much the newest OS without annoying
limits in the name of security, and the first where network configuration is
pretty painless.  I've run it on systems as small as a 90MHz Pentium (with a
lot of memory) (mostly kids games on that one), and am running it currently
on the P166 that drives the LPKF (that machine has a lot of memory too.
Most of my memory comes from the dumpsters; only very occasionally indeed do
I notice that W98 is actually paging/whatever to disk (at which point it
DOES become painful!))

BillW

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