How I became “Virtual PC Guy”

re: How I became “Virtual PC Guy”

Amit — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:04:28 GMT

I have been a regular visitor of your blogs specially Friday's & your blogs are awesome in terms of detailed info & reference links.

Today i came across this story of "Virtual PC Guy" & your Journey is awesome especially the way it has been Narrated.

Thanks for your blogs & knowledge sharing.

Wish u all the best.

re: How I became “Virtual PC Guy”

Dave — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:03:11 GMT

Yeah I've got to admit OS/2 was/is a great OS. I've got an old PS/2 running a very old version of OS/2. I've also got a copy of OS/2 warp around someplace that I've been meaning to install on VPC.

I'm also surprised that BeOS ran on VPC. Can <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_%28operating_system%29">Haiku</a> (a BeOS clone) run on VPC?

re: How I became “Virtual PC Guy”

Lex Lee — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:52:48 GMT

Great post! Are you involved in the Windows Virtual PC at all? I always wonder if Virtual PC is just a tune down version of Hyper-V, which will be nice, or just completely on it's own. One of the channel with desktop users is that we have more cores (2 to 4) then we can consume with one OS, and with virtualization, we can make good use of the investment by making those extra core works. Can you dedicate a core for each virtual in the new Virtual PC?

re: How I became “Virtual PC Guy”

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re: How I became “Virtual PC Guy”

Benjamin Armstrong — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:30:29 GMT

Tom -

Yes, I came across on the H-1B visa. The whole visa / green card process is an entirely different story though :-)

Peter Klavins -

Yes! I do miss Noosa. I come back to Oz about once every year and a half.

Jeff Odell -

Yes, I do. I miss extreme object orientation, I miss absolute weak typing and I miss being able to connect a method to an event, and pass a parameter - all through the UI builder. Sigh...

Asuka -

I had a great time speaking in China, and hope to return in the future.

Cheers,

Ben

re: How I became “Virtual PC Guy”

Janson — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:35:34 GMT

Hi Ben

A very interesting read, and explains quite a bit your afinity with Beta Testers :o)

Keep up the good work, and you never know, one day we may see Hyper-V on client OS :o)

Cheers

Janson

re: How I became “Virtual PC Guy”

Asuka — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:52:06 GMT

I used to watch your live speech in Shanghai,keep going, and also wish to see you again here.

re: How I became “Virtual PC Guy”

Jeff Odell — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:25:43 GMT

Do you still miss VisualAge for Smalltalk as much as I do>

re: How I became “Virtual PC Guy”

Peter Klavins — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:48:29 GMT

Don't you miss Noosa? How often do you get back to Brissie? Maybe you could work back there and RDP to the US through a VPN?

re: How I became “Virtual PC Guy”

Tom — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:30:05 GMT

Ben, undoubtedly you wrote this up while you were lying on the beach, after the RTM ship party, right? :-)

Someday these types of stories need to be collected into a book. The human side of technology is often more interesting than the technology itself.

P.S. I take it you came over on an H-1B visa? These days, of course, Australians come over on E-3 visas. But back in 2001, the tone of the immigration debate (especially skilled immigration) was different.