Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 08:18:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> To: questions list FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Status of running Willows Windows emulator? Message-ID: <Pine.FBS.3.93.960424080747.475B-100000@dingo.enc.edu>
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To answer my own question, below is what I was sent by the Willows sales
people.
So now, the big hold up seems to be our present inability to run Linux ELF
binaries. I understand that this will be coming down the pike in a few
months.
Does anyone have any testimonials about just how good or bad the Windows
emulation is? If it can run Word and Excel its obviously much further
along than Wine... but is it actually usable?
Perhaps when the BSDI DOS emulator port is done we'll be able to run Locus
Merge via SCO emulation (any guesses?). I think I could get FreeBSD on
some desktops here if I could only achieve some sort of Windows app
capability. (sigh...)
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 22:20:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rob Farnum <robf@www.willows.com>
To: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu>
Subject: Re: Windows emulator (analogous to WABI)
On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Charles Owens wrote:
> It's my understanding that, in addition to your TWIN devel kit suite,
> you also have developed a binary emulator that allows the running of
> Windows applications under Linux XFree86. I did not, however, see any
> information about this on your web site.
We have developed such a beast, but it is not yet a product in its own right.
It has a limited ability to run Windows applications. It is not supported,
and for demonstration purposes only. It can be usefule to see if and what
an application being ported will look and behave.
>
> Can you send me information about this product? Features, pricing,
> availibility, etc. Will it work on non-ELF binary systems?
It is part of the twin apiw toolkit for each of our supported platforms,
including linux. It may have some value to you, but is only supported
through the twin-users mailing list. If you register for the sdk, you
will recieve instructions on how to access the software, and then how
to run and configure xwin to run windows applications on linux.
It does require ELF kernel support, which can be added to an non-elf
machine, without a kernel upgrade, our ftp site has the necessary files
to do this.
We recognise the amount of work to make it have binary support equivalent
to WABI, and are not in a position to do that at this time. Be forewarned
that it is an impressive demo, but is not commercial quality yet.
[..]
Rob Farnum
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