From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 9 05:57:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA06700 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 05:57:31 -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 FAA06684; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 05:57:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from chuck@localhost) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id IAA27184; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 08:57:25 -0400 Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 08:57:25 -0400 From: Charles Green Message-Id: <199608091257.IAA27184@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Willows xwin for FreeBSD Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk With all the talk of willows on the list and their recent price hike I e-mailed Willows and asked them about just marketing the windows emulator (at a reasonable price, less than $100), here's what they had to say... "While MANY people are using a component of our developer's toolkit as a binary emulator, we feel it falls short of being considered of commercial grade (no 32-bit support, slower performance than we'd like), so we have not decided to release the binary emulator (xwin) as a standalone product. We make it available freely from www.willows.com, with a built in 30-45 day license key. As we solidify our plans for releasing it as a product, we may remove the free version from our web site, and may make the next generation available as a stand-alone product." It could happen... -- Charles Green, PRC Inc. Rome Laboratory, NY