[time-nuts] Looking for Wavecrest Visi

Joseph Gray jgray at zianet.com
Thu Apr 12 18:30:49 EDT 2007


> I will try that. I may have to do a dual boot on that machine if it 
> doesen't
> work out on XP. Installing Win98 after XP has been installed is an 
> entirely
> other discussion...
>
> bye,
> Said

Another way to dual boot that would be a lot easier than trying to graft 
Win98 onto a WinXP drive is to just use another drive for Win98. Even a 1GB 
drive would do. Most modern motherboards allow you to select which drive to 
boot from. If you do this, I would temporarily disconnect the WinXP drive 
while installing Win98, just to be safe. Once things are installed, the two 
drives will coexist just fine. In fact, without additional software, the 
Win98 drive will not even see the WinXP (NTFS) drive. If you need to be able 
to read the NTFS drive from Win98, let me know and I can provide some links.

One other possibility, short of dual booting is to try VMware. The big 
question is whether VMware will work with your GPIB interface. If it is 
serial or USB, it just might. If you want to try this, the VMware Player is 
free. To create a virtual machine configuration, go to the following web 
site: http://www.easyvmx.com/easyvmx.shtml. Of course, the full version of 
VMware Workstation allows you to create virtual machines directly.

I use VMware Workstation myself, but have never tried it with GPIB 
interfaces. Most serial and USB peripherals that I have tried do work.




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