Mon 2004-09-06 19:32, Malcolm Miles (3:633/260) wrote to Bob Lawrence:

 BL>>  I meant *two* motherboards internally networked by Windows. Linux
 BL>> owns a modem and RAM, but shares the hard drives and everything
 BL>> else.

 MM> Just run something like VMWare or Virtual PC and you can run
 MM> multiple operating systems on the one box; no need for dual
 MM> motherboards.

Or QEMU.  None of the emulators I've tried (on a Celeron 2.4 under XP) are
really up to the task of running a GUI at with enough pace to be truly
useable though.

To Bob:

What you're after is really done best by two separate machines.  There
would be heat problems with two motherboards in the one case, unless the
case was unusually large and had some sort of airflow divider in the
middle, but then you may as well have two cases.

I like the idea of two non-virtualised OSes trying to access a single hard
drive, but it's really not practical, not to mention not commercially
viable for Microsoft!

If Bob's concerned about power consumption, there are low-power (low-heat
and, I believe, fan-less) "slimline" style PCs that run at around
the 800 MHz range.  I think they cost a bit more than standard sized PCs
though.

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