From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 12:15:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA08881 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:15:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA08876 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:15:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA17857; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 15:15:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA13581; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 15:16:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 15:16:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Wags23@ix.netcom.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: General In-Reply-To: <19961020144338141@ix.netcom.com> 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 Sun, 20 Oct 1996 Wags23@ix.netcom.com wrote: > If I use FreeBSD on my computer, will I still be able to use my PC as a PC and > not just a workstation? I guess I don't truly understand what this program > is. I want to know if it is just a program that I can run so that while > running it my computer is a unix workstation, and when I don't want to use > UNIX, I can still use my computer as a PC (ex-WIN95 and all the programs I > already have) Yup. That's what it is. You'd be wise to refer to it as an `operating system', though, and not a `program'. It is an operating system just as DOS, Windows 95, and OS/2 are operating systems (or, at least, they like to think they are --- in the case of DOS, for example, this is doubtful). You can have the FreeBSD operating system on your computer and when you want to use Win95 you can just reboot the computer to Win95. In fact, this is what I do. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk