Virtual PC for Mac: Connectix. (Software).www.connectix.com, $199 Virtual PC for Mac delivers PC compatibility by enabling users to run multiple Windows operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. directly on a Macintosh computer. Among new benefits is the product's support of a wide range of PC operating systems and applications including Windows, Linux and PC-DOS The DOS operating system originally developed by Microsoft and supplied by IBM on its PCs before Windows 95 became the norm. Up until DOS 6, PC-DOS was almost identical to Microsoft's MS-DOS for non-IBM PCs, and both versions are called "DOS." See "IBM's DOS 6" under DOS 6. ; its ability to run multiple operating at the same time; its integration with the Mac OS including drag-and-drop file transfer, as well as copy and paste To copy files from one location to another or to copy text and images from one document to another. All modern operating systems and applications have a copy and paste capability that is typically selected from an Edit menu. See cut and paste and Win Copy between windows. between Mac and PC applications. New features include support for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X in one application, virtual switch in Mac OS X to network between Virtual PCs running on the same Mac, and the ability to share removable media In computer storage, removable media refers to storage media which can be removed from its reader device, conferring portability on the data it carries. A removable drive is a reader device for such media. storage devices. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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