Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 16:34:40 -0800 (PST) From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: Snob Art Genre <ben@multivac.narcissus.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: windows question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971029163251.1219G-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.96.971028235841.916E-100000@multivac.narcissus.net>
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On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Snob Art Genre wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Tim Cline wrote: > > > Hi, I am wanting to switch to FreeBSD. The only thing holding me back is > > an uncertainty- can you get an emulator or something for FreeBSD to run > > Microsoft Windows applications? Also, can you run DOS apps, and DOS apps > > which use DPMI? If you CAN run Windows apps, can you run Windows apps > > which use NETWORKING, such as ICQ? Thanks! > > The development branch of FreeBSD has BSD/OS's doscmd DOS emulator. > There's also WINE, which can do some Win3.1 emulation, in the ports > collection. Wine can do _some_ Win32 stuff I think (provided you have some dlls from Win31), and it can do windows networking. There's also another freeware project (Willow something or other I think). > I recently got a copy of Caldera's WABI, which is also Win3.1 emulation, > and I'm going to try to run it under FreeBSD's Linux emulation, since it > is a Linux app. Wish me luck. It says it does not support Windows > networking. WABI, while much more polished, doesn't run under 24bpp modes (at least on Sol x86), and doesn't have any Win32 support whatsoever. - alex
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