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Date:	Sun, 5 Sep 2004 15:07:09 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: SVISTA {was: eCS 1.2 Group Buy}

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In <413B7C62.DCE9076E@pacbell.net>, on 09/05/04
at 12:52 PM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>I thought it (and
>Connectix | VPC before it) might offer complete, self-contained OS
>replacements. (Like VMWare ?? Or VPC for the Mac ?)

No of the above do this. SVISTA, VMWare and VPC are all similar in that
the emulate the bare hardware.

>If you must
>already have the desired OS install cd, that would explain the high
>disk-space requirements.

You don't need to install just the OS. You also need to install the apps.

>But it remains a bit unclear to me where the
>so-called "emulation" (a la ODIN code) comes in,

Odin emulates the Windows software API. SVISTA emulates the bare
hardware.

Emulation is a generic term. One can emulate anything. See
http://dict.die.net/emulation/ and elsewhere for the defintion of the
world.

>if you are in fact still
>installing some form of "real" Win-32, or Linux . . . and perhaps then
>running it, under eCS.

The type of "running it" your refer to is called emulation.

Steven

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