From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 10:15:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5441837B8C5 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:15:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hacker@bolingbroke.com) Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (fremont.bolingbroke.com [216.102.90.210]) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA22114; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:15:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:15:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Bolingbroke To: Mark.Hummel@hurlburt.af.mil Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: concerning o/s incompatibility In-Reply-To: <856532CB07BED3118FE300204840E28A01107688@vexwncc02.hurlburt.af.mil> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sure it's possible--run VMWare under Windows. So then you'd have an OS running in an application (VMWare) which is running under another application (Windows). :-) Ken On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 Mark.Hummel@hurlburt.af.mil wrote: > Why would you want to run a real OS like FreeBSD as an application under > another application (Windoze)? Win 9X versions are not operating systems, > they're applications that look like OSs. I concede that Win 2K and NT are > OSs though. > > I don't believe it's possible to run an OS as an application under another > application. Besides the file systems are completely different. > > --Mark > > > -----Original Message----- > > Hi, > > I'm a S5V4 Unix user. I would like to know what is the difference > > between the unix version that I am using on my old computer now and > > FreeBSD. I would also like to know if I can use freeBSD under windows95 > > as an application instead of a O/S? > > If not, please tell me about a unix, such as Reflections X that can be > > used under windows NT... thank you To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message