Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 2/3/07 11:56:38 AM, samcc@... writes:


> 
> Could you combine these two migrate-to-Vista strategies if you have 
> two hard disks in a Vista-ready computer? I.e., continue to run XT on 
> one hard disk and print to your old printer from it, but also install 
> and start to run Vista on the other hard disk and print to a new 
> printer from it when drivers for it become available for Vista? That 
> is, don't switch from XT to Vista, just let Vista gradually out grow 
> XT while you gradually learn how to use Vista instead?
> 

I've used similar strategies in the past (Mac OS 9 to OS X, Win2k to XP) but 
they are rather unsatisfactory, in that you need to reboot to move back and 
forth, and need to register applications more than once (and some apps don't 
allow this). I actually found it was easier, for the situations where it was 
functional, to run OS 9 via the Classic Emulator under OS X, so both were 
available at once, and to run both Win2k and XP under VirtualPC on the Mac, so they 
could be accessed without rebooting a Windows box as well. Now its just a matter 
of running two virtual machines (XP and Vista) on an Intel Mac using 
Parallels to get the same flexibility. Doesn't do absolutely everything, but its very 
convenient for the things it does!

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Division
DataColor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com


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