Never did know why, just that they do. It don't make any sense to me.
2007-06-15 06:07:48 · 7 answers · asked by duron1_2 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
They may be wanting to use software written that will only run on a specific OS. Or they just have a general preference to use one os to do one thing and a different os for another. For example, most advanced games are written for Windows (or MAC) but if they are doing research or something that requires a lot of batch operations or possibly testing a piece of code for work, then they may do that on a different OS like Solaris, AIX or Linux. They might also just want to play around with it a bit or want to evaluate an upgrade without compromising their existing environment. There could be any number of reasons.
2007-06-15 06:17:54 · answer #1 · answered by Dilbert's Desk 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To use them both at their whims and fancy.
Also this enables one to learn more about and perhaps use different OSes. Like, two separate OSes ( Windows and Linux or Solaris and Unixware, ) can teach one how to use them both. The more OSes that one is familiar with the better it is, especially for a person who is in the IT Field, in their Software development efforts as well.
In this time and age we need to know how to use more than two different OSes at a time. This helps a lot if one need to change jobs, to use a given OS at work and another at home.
Moreover most OSes have some or the other kind of dependency on another OS. I am sure that you know that the basic OS underlying the Internet and that makes it work is a different one from the one that you use at home. So they too are dependent on each other.
2007-06-15 13:11:51 · answer #2 · answered by ArnieSchivaSchangaran 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
On my machine I have 4 OS's
Windows XP
Windows Vista
openSuSE 10.2
Kubuntu
I do it for development purposes, and support.
In the old days people had to do it alot with Windows 95 / 98 and NT since NT didn't support everything.
Now a days more people are doing it on Intel MAC's for Windows XP and MAC OS X
2007-06-15 13:11:09 · answer #3 · answered by eclipseagent 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well I have only done that once in my life and that was to transfer info from my old computer, to my new computer, before I got rid of the old one...
I wanted to clean my old computer of personal info before I got rid of it...
Nowadays, I just send info to a disc and clear out the computer that way...
However I can imagine folks that have them hooked up to each other at the same time to have more storage and power...
2007-06-15 14:42:21 · answer #4 · answered by aspenkdp2003 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So you can have lots of flexibility w/ one computer w/o having to spend the money and take up the space with a second computer.
2007-06-15 13:14:50 · answer #5 · answered by zandyandi 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Curiosity
2007-06-15 13:10:48 · answer #6 · answered by helpdesk916 ♦♣♠♥ 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
maybe to manage two hard drives, not sure
2007-06-15 13:10:23 · answer #7 · answered by djiens_army 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋