Wine & Office 97

[Matthew Flaschen]

Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:

>> You should consider a virtual machine, in that case.  If you're lucky,
>> it will abstract away the hardware incompatibility and let you run
>> Windows on Ubuntu full-time.
>>
>> Matt Flaschen
>>
> Yes I was using win 98se under vmware and office 97 respectively access
> 97 is not a problem. The only drawback:
> Since Win 9.x by design consumes 100% of your CPU, even when the OS is
> idle, anything outside your vmware session will be very slow.

VMWare (along with other programs) will allow you to limit the CPU Hz
allocated to the VM.  See
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_esx_resource_mgmt.pdf (e.g. p. 23)

Matt Flaschen