From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 8 09:50:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA20903 for current-outgoing; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 09:50:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA20870 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 09:50:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from chuck@localhost) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA06950; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 12:50:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 12:50:13 -0400 From: Charles Green Message-Id: <199608081650.MAA06950@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey "Re: Linux Willows?" (Aug 7, 17:23) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: Linux Willows? Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greg Lehey stands accused of saying: } Date: Aug 7, 17:23 } Subject: Re: Linux Willows? } } > Err, I'm on that list too; last I heard on the topic was Rod agreeing } > vehemently with me that trying to be a Windows emulator was pointless, } > and enumerating just exactly why from his point of view. } } Why don't you summarize? I'm on vacation and have only been skimming } the newsgroup, and I'm sure that a lot of other people would benefit } too. In any case, with twin now costing $5,000, it's not really } viable as a Windoze emulator. *sigh* } } Greg } }-- End of excerpt from Greg Lehey What would be nice, is for willows to take a subset of their work (xwin) and market it *as* a windows emulator and sell it for something like $99.00 (binary only). I'd buy it. -- Charles Green, PRC Inc. Rome Laboratory, NY