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RE: Did anyone here ever run Bootcamp on a Mac for windows?

Posted by cvandyke (A) on February 25, 2015 at 05:15:16

In Reply to: Did anyone here ever run Bootcamp on a Mac for windows? posted by Michael Samra on February 24, 2015 at 14:09:04:

I have some time ago. It worked as advertised 5 years ago and, knowing Apple, probably still does. You boot into the operating system you have selected as default but you can choose a different one by holding down the "option" key at boot up. Bootcamp provides all the drivers needed for the Mac hardware in Windows. If you have a single hard drive, you do need to partition your hard drive so you end up dedicating a portion of your hard drive to run windows. The Bootcamp installer allows you to do this "on the fly" so it shouldn't mess up your current MacOS drive.

I currently use a software package called Parallels that allows you to run other, non-MacOS operating systems as a virtual machine (VM) which I find much more useful. You don't need to reboot and you can have as many VMs as you want. Also, it's easy to clone a VM so you can create a copy so that if you completely mess up you can just delete it without having to go through the pain of reinstalling / patching. Downsides are relatively slow video performance, consumption of hard drive space, a need for lots of RAM and occasionally difficultly in interfacing odd hardware.

I'm curious. This being an older HP instrument, I assume it uses HP GPIB as it's interface for digital data. If so, how do you connect this to a PC?

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