Stack working in MACOS, not in Windows.

[J. Landman Gay]

Peter Alcibiades wrote:
> " I, of course the ever- mac-evangelist (Yes I was on Guy's Evangel-list)
> have put off my day of Windows reckoning until this moment, and cannot test
> this out for myself. I am paying the price for my platform bigotry."
> 
> It makes no sense.  Virtual machines are not good enough.  If you want to
> develop as a professional for a platform, you have to have that platform in
> physical form to test on.  The most you can do is share a keyboard and
> screen and mouse via hardware switching.  

I guess that disqualifies me then. ;) I had a real PC box 10 years ago, 
but once I moved to Parallels I never looked back. There was a single 
discrepancy (in cursor redraws) in one of my apps in Parallels version 
2.x but ever since version 3.0 I haven't ever found any differences. I'm 
satisifed that I'm getting the "PC experience" and so far my Windows 
clients have never noticed (and most never know) that I test Windows 
builds in emulation. For a while I had Ubuntu running as well without 
any trouble, but I haven't kept up with that OS since I don't have any 
current clients who need software on it.

I can't speak for other emulators, since I've only used Parallels. But I 
think the technology has matured enough now that needing to duplicate 
physical hardware is becoming a thing of the past.

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