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Old 12-26-2014, 06:04 PM   #129
rcentros
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As an experiment, I just started Virtualbox with XP and Sigil and my total RAM usage is about 900MB. I'm running a few apps in my main system, too.
For a while I ran Windows 2000 in Virtualbox under Linux with 1GB of memory. The performance seemed fine, but I found I just never used it. I mostly wanted it for one program (Movie Magic Screenwriter) and my need for that program waned. Now I just use software "built" for native Linux (Trelby). I also used DOS programs (like WordStar 7 and dBASE 5) which I now use in DOSBox under Linux.
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