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I was running an x86 VM on my 16Mhz 68030 Mac LCII in 1996 in college - SoftPC by Insignia Solutions.

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> I was running an x86 VM on my 16Mhz 68030 Mac LCII in 1996 in college - SoftPC by Insignia Solutions.

That's called emulation. That's not what VMWare does.

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> I genuinely couldn't believe what I was seeing - it seemed that revolutionary, running an OS inside an OS on a desktop

SoftPC was in fact “running an OS inside an OS on the desktop “

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> I was running an x86 VM on my 16Mhz 68030 Mac LCII in 1996 in college - SoftPC by Insignia Solutions.

That's called emulation. That's not what VMWare does.

From the parent poster

> I genuinely couldn't believe what I was seeing - it seemed that revolutionary, running an OS inside an OS on a desktop

SoftPC was in fact “running an OS inside an OS on the desktop “

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse