From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 4 14:36:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA01117 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 14:36:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po2.glue.umd.edu (po2.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA01100 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 14:36:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skipper.eng.umd.edu (skipper.eng.umd.edu [129.2.103.24]) by po2.glue.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA04353; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 17:36:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by skipper.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA13145; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 17:36:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 17:36:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@skipper.eng.umd.edu To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: tinman@cco.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows and DOS for Free BSD In-Reply-To: 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 Thu, 4 Jul 1996, Doug White wrote: > 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? Unfortunately, yes. Engineering classes here require matlab, which unfortunately is a dos beast. I'd LOVE to be able to run it (or Mathcad, even better) under FreeBSD. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------