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> Richard Costine <rjc@n2k.com> wrote:
> > ... I agree that you couldn't do it exactly the way that VM is
> > doing it. You would have to emulate everything. [...] This would
> > make the emulator much slower than a real pentium, ...
> 
> This would basically be the same as the VirtualPC product that
> exists for the PowerMac.

There is a portable emulator ('Bochs') that is showing a lot of promise 
in this regard.

mike