Performance

+ Added significant performance enhancements for Virtual PC running in Mac OS X.
+ Improved performance of Virtual PC in Mac OS X with background applications. Virtual PC will receive more time when it's the foreground application.
+ Virtual PC now yields processor time when a guest OS is in the foreground but idle. (Requires the new Virtual PC Additions.)
+ Increased throttle time in Mac OS X to give more time to video.
+ Faster overall boot time for most OSes (when no other applications are running) in Mac OS X.
+ Greatly improved performance of 16-bit applications running in Windows 2000 in Mac OS X.
+ Improved speed of installing 32-bit operating systems (i.e. Windows 2000) in Mac OS X.
+ Fixed an issue between Virtual PC and sound initialization that caused Virtual PC to crash at launch.
+ Added fix for rare crash when saved states were restored on beige G3's.

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