multiple operating systems

[Juan Bofill]

Thanks for all the explanations!

Juan Bofill

> On Sep 21, 2021, at 1:46 AM, Dan Ridinger <dlr at futurechalk.com> wrote:
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> Hello Grant,
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> I use parallels for all VM’s (Unix, Windows n, Mac OS’s) and the beauty is I don’t have to reboot to run any of them.  As Doug E.  said it basically runs anything. 
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> Dan Ridinger
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>> On Sep 20, 2021, at 7:17 AM, Bookit Enterprises <bookit.grant at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I am in my final year of using Omnis in my business, as I am shutting it down next spring, sometime after I turn 75, which I think is a reasonable retirement age.
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>> I am running 8.0.3.2 Studio on Mac High Sierra, and still using DF files.  I use it for less than half an hour a day, so I am not interested in upgrading to a version of Studio 10, nor transitioning to SQL.
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>> However, High Sierra no longer gets security updates, so I would like to upgrade my operating system to Big Sur, and, eventually, Monterey.
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>> I would like to have a partition on my hard drive that runs High Sierra and Studio 8.0.3.2, and nothing else.
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>> A few years back, I did a partition and set up a second Mac OS, but found moving back and forth between operating systems annoying, so undid that.  Maybe my memory of the experience is incorrect, or I set things up poorly, or it’s just not a good solution.
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>> I may also want to add Windows to the mix, as there are some programs on Windows I would like to run, which don’t have Mac equivalents.
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>> Potential solutions seem to include Boot Camp, Wine, Parallels, Virtual Box, and VMware Fusion.
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>> Does anyone have recommendations among these, or some other solution I have not come across, to run High Sierra, Big Sur, and Windows 10 seamlessly without rebooting between systems, and having Big Sur as my primary desktop?
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>> Thanks in advance,
>> 
>> Grant Thiessen
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