In order to provide support for these machines someone would have to rewrite a bunch of device drivers. If enough of the operating system is open-sourced via the Darwin project, it is conceivable that OS X might one day run on the 6100. Don't hold your breath. Back to the top of the page. If you attempt to run VirtualPC on a stock 6100, you will be sorely disappointed.
Emulation requires a lot of horsepower.
Even with my Newer210 card, Windows 95 under VirtualPC is about as fast as a 66 MHz 486. Fast enough to make it usable, but I wouldn't try to play Quake on it. Back to the top of the page. By now, everyone's heard of Linux, the free and open-sourced Unix clone that's sweeping geekdom as we speak. Among the many touted strengths of Linux is it's comparatively low resource requirements and its support for obsolete hardware.