Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pallas!kabra437 From: kabra437@pallas.UUCP (Ken Abrams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: VMIX Message-ID: <256@pallas.UUCP> Date: 23 Jan 90 22:00:08 GMT References: <13773@s.ms.uky.edu> <25BB31E4.20086@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Reply-To: kabra437@pallas.UUCP (Ken Abrams) Distribution: comp Organization: Athenanet, Inc., Springfield, Illinois Lines: 21 In article <25BB31E4.20086@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes: > I have tried two versions, one very old and another which is not too >old. The first one didn't work at all on my machine (AT clone, AMI BIOS), >and the second, called VMIX 386 (though it claims to work on machines from >the 8086/8088 up), dispayed a control screen but then hung the machine. >I also tried this second version on a real IBM PS/2 30-286 and had the >same results. I don't recall if a warm boot worked or not in either of >these cases. The authors of this package sure do paint a pretty picture. My experience on a '386 was similar to yours. I actually called one of the people listed in the documentation. He couldn't or wouldn't tell me any specific machine that it would run properly upon. He said that they realized that there were still major problems to be resolved (gross understatement). I left my address and phone number and indicated to them that I would shell out $$$ if and when they ever got it to work. This has been about 8 months ago and haven't heard a peep out of them. I don't know what they really expected to accomplish by releasing something that they obviously knew wouldn't live up the the hype. If I remember correctly, they even had set a price for registration. What a shame; it really did SOUND good.