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Article: PC Emulators.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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VIRTUAL PC AND BLUE LABEL POWEREMULATOR
SURE, PCS ARE DIRT CHEAP these days, but do you really need another computer? Even if you occasionally--or regularly--use PC applications, PC-emulation software for your Mac can save you from purchasing a beige box or Windows laptop. Connectix's Virtual PC 3.0 and Lismore Software Systems' Blue Label PowerEmulator 1.5 both run PC software on a Power Mac, but otherwise they are very different pieces of software.
Both packages use software and the PowerPC's processing muscle to create a fake PC, tricking Windows applications into thinking they're running on a real 80X86 machine. However, the differences between the ...