Date: Fri, 6 Dec 96 11:11:31 PST From: "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@pinpt.com> To: "Pedro Giffuni S." <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: status of _windows_, dos and svr4 emulation Message-ID: <Chameleon.849901257.List@journeyman.pinpt.com> References: <32A7A478.29D4@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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--- On Thu, 05 Dec 1996 20:43:36 -0800 "Pedro Giffuni S." <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> wrote: > Sean J. Schluntz wrote: > > > > > > >When netbsd's svr4 emulation will be ported to FreeBSD? > > > > > > > > Well, what's the application you want it for? > > > > > > > How about WABI for SolarisX86 (itīs available isnīt it)? but thereīs > > > also a Linux version now...would have to find out which is cheaper, but > > > Linuxīs version would, almost surely, always be better supported by > > > FreeBSD. > > > > WABI for Linux is $199 for one copy. You have to have your own copy of > > Windows v3.1. I don't know if it works with WinfW v3.11 yet, but I guess I > > will find out when I get it. > > > Yes, I think it does, but there isnīt much advantage in doing so. SUN > only grants it will run MS-office, the rest (Visual C++,etc) is in > doubt. I would like to know if it can run win32s and winsock stuff... That's not going to be a problem for me, I only need the emulation so that I can run the same office suite that the rest of the company uses. My development is done with the wonderful Un*x tools freely available. When out development team "requires" that I do things for our distributed product (not my job right now) and I have to program in vC++ I will put together a NT system or put another hard disk in my home box and use the SCSI controller to switch between which I want to boot on. > Iīve read reports under the WINE project that Excel and Word run and are > even usable, but I have not tested it: WINE is still in alpha state and > the list of good utilities grow _and_ shrink with each new version. IMHO > WINE will be better than the actual WABI but it will take too much time > to complete (specially if we limit ourselves to watch :(... ). I've been keeping my eyes on this one. What I am really waiting for is SunSofts' WABI95 which is already running Office95 in beta. The office 95 suite is what we use at work so that's what I want to be able to run. -Sean ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean J. Schluntz <schluntz@pinpt.com> Manager, Support Services ph. 408.997.6900 x222 PinPoint Software Corporation fx. 408.323.2300 6155 Almaden Expressway, Suite 100 San Jose, CA. 95120 http://www.pinpt.com/ Local Time Sent: 12/06/96 11:11:31 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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