From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 4 13:07:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA17653 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 13:07:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA17638 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 13:07:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA00278; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 13:07:34 -0700 Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 13:07:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: tinman@cco.net cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Windows and DOS for Free BSD In-Reply-To: <199607040448.VAA29337@joshua.cco.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 3 Jul 1996 tinman@cco.net wrote: > A few quick questions. Can I run MS DOS, Windows 3.X and Windows '95 > programs in FreeBSD? Also, what are the system requirements? Ouch. Please correct me here, people: DOS: yes with dosemu, not very well tho. Last I heard we are working with BSD/OS to port over their 'rundos' system. Windows 3.X: Yes? with Willows or Wine. Win95: No way as of yet, AFAIK. Don't expect 100% compatibility with any of these. Any reason you'd want to punish yourself by running DOS programs under FreeBSD? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major