From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 21 21:54:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA17707 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 21:54:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@haiti-69.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA17696 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 21:54:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA07952; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 21:56:20 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 21:56:16 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: John Krebbs cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD - Compatability In-Reply-To: <19980222002511.AAA5045@[12.68.160.142]> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, John Krebbs wrote: > > Greetings. I'll be attending College this fall, as a Computer Science > Major. We are required to obtain a copy of FreeBSD for use during the > spring semester. Now, I'm a devoted Macintosh user, and would like to > purchase one for my college years. The problem is, FreeBSD apparently > doesn't run on it. Now, I've been thinking of buying VirtualPC, a program > from Connectix, in order to run Windows on my Mac. If I did so, would it be > possible to run FreeBSD from the Mac also? VirtualPC should run FreeBSD flawlessly (or at least newer versions should, the original version doesn't), albeit very very slowly. I'd agree with all the people who suggest an old 486, it'll be much less hassle in the end run. - alex A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message