From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 28 21:10:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA20043 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 21:10:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from coal.nis.newscorp.com (mxa.newscorp.com [206.15.105.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA19934 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 21:08:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@multivac.narcissus.net) Received: from multivac.narcissus.net (ts2port25.port.net [207.38.248.153]) by coal.nis.newscorp.com (News Corp SMTP GW 1.1) with SMTP id AAA07488; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 00:10:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost by multivac.narcissus.net (NX5.67e/NX3.0S) id AA00961; Wed, 29 Oct 97 00:01:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 00:01:04 -0400 (GMT-0400) From: Snob Art Genre Reply-To: benedict@echonyc.com To: Tim Cline Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: windows question In-Reply-To: <19971028223636500.AAA490@usr2-44.pcl.net> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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."