From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 23 10:51:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA01553 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 10:51:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA01547 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 10:51:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA45868; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 18:51:42 GMT Message-ID: <3659AEBE.C25D8F38@tdx.co.uk> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 18:51:42 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Debisschop CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Software References: <01be170e$a51bdc00$552907c2@sky39759> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Marcel Debisschop wrote: > > Hallo, > It was the first time today that I heard about freeBSD. > I would like to know if I wan run applications such as Office97 under > FreeBSD? > I am a CAD-CAM teacher, can I run Microstation and Microstation Modeler (2D > an 3D drawing, rendering and visualisation). This is a must for me. > I would realy like to try FreeBSD, but first I need to know if I can work > with those programs. Sorry, you can't run Office'97 (or similar Win'95/98/NT apps) under FreeBSD as of yet... There are emulators (of which 'bochs' and 'wine' spring to mind) that will for the most attempt to run either Windows '95 or it's applications, but they are by no means finished/stable yet... You can however have a 'dual-boot' system that when you boot your machine will give you the option of running FreeBSD, or Windows '95/98 or NT at startup time - We use this here on a few machines, and it works fine... Regards, Karl Pielorz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message