Parallels

[steve harley]

they whom i call Hex Star wrote:
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> On 2/28/07, *steve harley* <steve at paper-ape.com 
> <mailto:steve at paper-ape.com>> wrote:
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>     they whom i call Chad Leigh wrote:
>      > Even then, they tend to get in the way unless you need separate
>      > partitions to install multiple copies of the OS or something.
> 
>     yeah, the same way multiple hard drives get in the way
> 
> they don't really...just think of a raid 1 or the mirrored raid setup 
> for backuping purposes ;-) :-)

that was my (too subtle) point, except the RAID part is 
irrelevant -- the hassles of partitions are little different from 
the hassles of using multiple hard drives; they also have similar 
advantages;  we don't hear many people say "avoid multiple hard 
drives because they get in the way" ...