Subj : Too much hassle. WAS: vinyl resting place
To   : Robert Wolfe
From : Tommi Koivula
Date : Mon Mar 02 2020 07:41 pm

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Hi Robert.

29 Feb 20 17:55, you wrote to me:

 RW> -> I virtualized my very old running OS/2 computer about year or two ago. 
It is

 RW> -> running under VMWare now, and it is very stable. No phone lines, no 
special
 RW> -> hardware, so it was quite painless conversion. Might be possible to run 
it i

 RW> ->  VPS too, but I haven't tried.

 RW> I never got ArcaOS or ECS to virtualize properly under VMWare, which is
 RW> why I use VirtualBox to handle that.

I just found the ISO of ArcaOS 5.0 from the internet. Installed it into VMWare 
Workstation 15 running in Windows 7 64bit in my Dell E7250 laptop.

Installed and runs fine. And so far it looks quite ok. Better than Ecomstation. 
:)

'Tommi

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