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Anonymous Coward User ID: 42511858 New Zealand 06/29/2013 02:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Computer/OS advice needed - or just your opinion I run Win 7 because of Visual Studio, MS SQL and .Net 4. I've been wanting to switch to Linux for ages now, tried OSX Snow Leopard but couldn't really get in to it. Could I get a VM to work in Linux which would run all that? - I am a wee bit unsure. I need a virtual XP/Win7 box, a virtual OSX box, an experimental Linux box (say tiny or mint) and an outer physical box running on fairly crappy older hardware (no games apart from Solitaire), so probably a rock-solid Linux beastie like Fedora or similar. My needs are fairly specific and rather rudimentary. Basically a programming box which is effectively a glorified text editor and that's about it. Am a experienced computer tech, so am just being a bit lazy by posting here - I'll find the answer with a bit of minimal research - just kinda wanted some off-the-cuff responses. I thank you in advance for your abuse, bad advice and well-meaning but erroneous ideas - Am savvy enough to distinguish between most types of code, electrical/electronic wiring systems and your basic explosive devices. Thoughts welcome. Not so much explosives.

Anonymous Coward User ID: 37530539 United States 06/29/2013 02:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Computer/OS advice needed - or just your opinion Just partition the drive. Reboot when you want to change. Less of a pain in the ass.
Doommincus Maximus User ID: 6085206 New Zealand 06/29/2013 02:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Computer/OS advice needed - or just your opinion as far as I am aware Linux apps to emulate .NET like WINE only support up to .NET3.5. If your planning on developing apps targeting .NET4-4.5 its not going to happen on Linux. Stand up for what you believe in, even if you stand alone.
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 42511858 New Zealand 06/29/2013 02:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Computer/OS advice needed - or just your opinion Just partition the drive. Reboot when you want to change. Less of a pain in the ass. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 37530539 Already partitioned man. Don't want to do the triple boot thing if I can avoid it. Got Refit handling the Windows/Mac Boot switch already. Laptop getting flaky. Next step will be ripping the drive out and drop-kicking the lappy off the nearest cliff. Actually, that would save a lot of time.
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 42511858 New Zealand 06/29/2013 02:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Computer/OS advice needed - or just your opinion as far as I am aware Linux apps to emulate .NET like WINE only support up to .NET3.5. If your planning on developing apps targeting .NET4-4.5 its not going to happen on Linux. Quoting: Doommincus Maximus Dang. Bad news for me. I guess Mono didn't go that far. Looked at Cocoa, then at the Apple licensing crap and thought "when my phone dies, that's it". Back to win mobile development. Slow, but it works. Thanks for your input. Cheers, Mate.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 40974770 United States 06/29/2013 03:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Computer/OS advice needed - or just your opinion I suggest you build a Z80 board and outfit it with either a SIO/0 or a 8530 SCC serial interface. Modify the CP/M source code to use a cassette tape drive for storage. Use the Kansas City Standard for AFSK data encoding. Connect a TCM3105 modem IC chip to the board for VHF packet radio using the AX.25 protocol. Or you can rewire it for dial-up modem operation. Refer to the 1979 edition of The Giant Handbook of Computer Projects for a how-to on the above... it even shows how to build a video interface and driver to interface your micro with a CRT monitor. Hey... you said you only wanted a glorified text editor and this will do that plus more!
lightchild_uk Waiting for IT User ID: 32027986 United Kingdom 06/29/2013 03:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Computer/OS advice needed - or just your opinion I suggest you build a Z80 board and outfit it with either a SIO/0 or a 8530 SCC serial interface. Modify the CP/M source code to use a cassette tape drive for storage. Use the Kansas City Standard for AFSK data encoding. Connect a TCM3105 modem IC chip to the board for VHF packet radio using the AX.25 protocol. Or you can rewire it for dial-up modem operation. Refer to the 1979 edition of The Giant Handbook of Computer Projects for a how-to on the above... it even shows how to build a video interface and driver to interface your micro with a CRT monitor. Hey... you said you only wanted a glorified text editor and this will do that plus more! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 40974770 I think a light pen out of an old pen could make the deal.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 42498155 United States 06/29/2013 03:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Computer/OS advice needed - or just your opinion I suggest you build a Z80 board and outfit it with either a SIO/0 or a 8530 SCC serial interface. Modify the CP/M source code to use a cassette tape drive for storage. Use the Kansas City Standard for AFSK data encoding. Connect a TCM3105 modem IC chip to the board for VHF packet radio using the AX.25 protocol. Or you can rewire it for dial-up modem operation. Refer to the 1979 edition of The Giant Handbook of Computer Projects for a how-to on the above... it even shows how to build a video interface and driver to interface your micro with a CRT monitor. Hey... you said you only wanted a glorified text editor and this will do that plus more! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 40974770
Anonymous Coward User ID: 40974770 United States 06/29/2013 04:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Computer/OS advice needed - or just your opinion I suggest you build a Z80 board and outfit it with either a SIO/0 or a 8530 SCC serial interface. Modify the CP/M source code to use a cassette tape drive for storage. Use the Kansas City Standard for AFSK data encoding. Connect a TCM3105 modem IC chip to the board for VHF packet radio using the AX.25 protocol. Or you can rewire it for dial-up modem operation. Refer to the 1979 edition of The Giant Handbook of Computer Projects for a how-to on the above... it even shows how to build a video interface and driver to interface your micro with a CRT monitor. Hey... you said you only wanted a glorified text editor and this will do that plus more! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 40974770 I think a light pen out of an old pen could make the deal. Quoting: lightchild_uk [link to www.atariarchives.org]
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