Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 00:01:04 -0400 (GMT-0400) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@multivac.narcissus.net> To: Tim Cline <tcline@pcl.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: windows question Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.971028235841.916E-100000@multivac.narcissus.net> In-Reply-To: <19971028223636500.AAA490@usr2-44.pcl.net>
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On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Tim Cline wrote: > Hi, I am wanting to switch to FreeBSD. The only thing holding me back is > an uncertainty- can you get an emulator or something for FreeBSD to run > Microsoft Windows applications? Also, can you run DOS apps, and DOS apps > which use DPMI? If you CAN run Windows apps, can you run Windows apps > which use NETWORKING, such as ICQ? Thanks! The development branch of FreeBSD has BSD/OS's doscmd DOS emulator. There's also WINE, which can do some Win3.1 emulation, in the ports collection. I recently got a copy of Caldera's WABI, which is also Win3.1 emulation, and I'm going to try to run it under FreeBSD's Linux emulation, since it is a Linux app. Wish me luck. It says it does not support Windows networking. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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