<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Robin Laing wrote: <blockquote cite="mid41FFCE29.5090609@drdc-rddc.gc.ca" type="cite">Edward Yang wrote: <blockquote type="cite">Sorry, I think there is some misunderstanding about virutal techonology. In a virutal hardware box, the guest OS inside it does not know where it is. It may be a litter or much slower than in a real hardware box, but the memory footprint should never been any difference. That's why many developers use Microsoft Virutal PC or VMWare to test there programs. Think about it - you don't have to boot into another OS or go to another computer that may be 50 meters far just to test a small problem of your progarm! So I think I I have FC3 installed in a real hardware box, the memory footprint of the JVM will be the same. </blockquote> And we can all trust Microsoft to ensure that this is how it works. Microsoft lost a very long court case after making Windows not work with Dr Dos. I wouldn't be surprised to find Microsoft doing something similar. Who really knows all the code in Windows. </blockquote> Well, I think your reply does not have much relation to virtual techonology even m$ is very evil. </body> </html>