From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 5 15:41:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA28515 for current-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 15:41:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA28510 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 15:41:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA12141; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 15:38:14 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199608052238.PAA12141@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Linux Willows? To: dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk (Developer) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 15:38:13 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Developer" at Aug 3, 96 06:04:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Could someone explain what Linux Willow is and where to get a copy of it > from? Willows Software ( http://www.willows.com/ ) produces a product called "The Willows Toolkit"; it used to be called "TWIN". The purpose of this toolkit is to allow you to compile Windows apps for UNIX, Mac, and other systems (apparently they are doing conversion to JAVA now?!?). In addition, they have a program that comes with the toolkit that allows you to run Windows Apps on your UNIX/Mac system. It has two modes: one with an emulated 386, and one using LDT/GDT ops to run on a local 386 in protected mode. Willows Software has made the toolkit and emulation module available to the free UNIX community, not just Linux. There was a list for people who had agreed to their non-disclosure and obtained the software for porting to FreeBSD. Sujal Patel was the primary source of FreeBSD fixes (I am also on the list). I haven't seen any traffic on the list for quite some time now. There was at least a beta version (their code, plus our patches) up for FTP on their site for FreeBSD. I believe that the changes have been sufficiently radical in -current that the code needs some work, but it was running Windows apps sufficiently to run MSWord on the 386 emulator under FreeBSD, and Sujal was working on some stack problems for running using the native processor in protected mode... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.