As I have had more-recent-than-the-windows release hardware since,
oh, 1996, I have (unfortunately) always had to stay with a rather
recent version of Windows. Especially running M$ Visual C or Borland
C Builder manages to crash a lot more often on older windows
versions on newer hardware. Running '98 in the VMWare just hadn't
crossed my mind yet (mind you, at work we can't as we are using it
to test server applications with permissions and all), but VMWare
would not have those problems.
I wasn't talking about disk performance, though. It seems that the
SysMalloc()/SysFree() calls of [D]COM[+] are really inefficient
within the VMWare client. That means that each time a VisualBasic
app is splicing and merging strings CPU usage goes to 100%. 's
probably got to do with allocating 'cleaned' memory pages, where the
content is guaranteed to be all zeroes.
