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To: hacker@bolingbroke.com, Mark.Hummel@hurlburt.af.mil
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Subject: RE: concerning o/s incompatibility
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 12:22:00 -0500 
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My head hurts now!  The hardware is peeling a big onion with a lot of
layers.  :-)

Thanks for the correction though.  

Mark 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ken Bolingbroke [SMTP:hacker@bolingbroke.com]
> Sent:	Friday, 04 August, 2000 1215
> To:	Mark.Hummel@hurlburt.af.mil
> Cc:	freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject:	RE: concerning o/s incompatibility
> 
> 
> 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
> 


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