Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 01 Jan 1998 17:08:09 +1030
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Add-in Card? 
Message-ID:  <199801010638.RAA00964@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Dec 1997 12:05:50 -0800." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971230120253.25535A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> 
> The following excerpts from messages posted to
> comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
> note a Sun Sparcstation solution to running Microsoft programs--an add-in
> card that runs Windows 95 "natively."  This suggests the possibility
> of a card that would allow one to install and run Windows (3.1, 95, NT,
> whatever...maybe even dos games)....perhaps in a X-Window.  

Sure.  They even exist to a degree.  The card mentioned below is 
basically a complete PC on a card.  It costs about as much as a 
complete PC too.

> I really don't know what I'm talking
> about here but it sounds perhaps easier than emulation. 

Much more expensive, and not really much easier to do from scratch.
-- 
\\ Sometimes you're ahead,                  \\ Mike Smith
\\ sometimes you're behind.                 \\ mike@smith.net.au
\\ Remember, the race is long,              \\ msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and in the end it's only with yourself.  \\ 





Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199801010638.RAA00964>