Testing on multiple platforms

[andu]

--On Monday, November 11, 2002 11:33:09 -0600 miscdas at boxfrog.com wrote:

> Shari writes:
>> [snip]
>>
>
>> I have one OS.  Some people have my OS, others do not.
>
>>  Unless you have 5 or 10 computers, you CANNOT test on all OS's.
>>
>> A Window's developer would need at least 4 to test on the various
>> flavours of Windows.  Minimum.
>>
>> A Mac developer would need at least 3.  Minimum.
>>
>> A cross platform developer would need a minimum of 7 computers, if you
>> own all the flavours that your program might run on.
>>
>> Shari C
> ========
> Shari,
> You need to make a distinction between "computers" and "operating
> systems". You can have one computer that runs many flavors of Windows
> through different means. For example, Windows has dual-boot option,
> enabling  installing of a variety of OSs on a single drive, and SELECTION
> of which OS to actually boot at startup. Another method is to have
> several hard drives in removable boxes, each drive a different OS. Then,
> simply swap drives as needed and boot up the required OS.  Perhaps the
> Mac world has similar capabilities?

The point here is resentment for change as was mentioned in a couple of 
messages, not lack of solutions.   My mac contains os 9.2.2, OS X (Darwin), 
Linux on one drive with the option of running os 9.2.2 within either Linux 
or OS X.

> So you see, a considerable amount of Mac/Windows cross-platform testing
> can be done on as little as only two computers--a Mac and a PC--not the
> "5 or 10 computers" that you proclaim.  miscdas
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Regards, Andu Novac