From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 22 18:25:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA00612 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 18:25:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@congo-72.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.227.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00594 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 18:25:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA16493; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 18:25:29 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 18:25:23 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: "John Anthony Kazos Jr." cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and SoftWindows In-Reply-To: <34F05F4F.2EA2198A@usa.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > I have a MacOS clone computer (PowerMac 604e 200MHz PCI). There is a > program called SoftWindows 95 (version 5.0) that emulates Windows95, the > SoundBlaster 16 card, etc. by emulating a Pentium (Pentium II, I think) > processor and related hardware. I would like to know if I would be able > to use FreeBSD with SoftWindows. I plan to attend the Virginia > Polytechnic Institute and State University and they require both Windows > 95/NT and UNIX, and they referred me to FreeBSD.ORG. I seriously doubt that SoftWidows will run anything else than Windows. You may have better luck with VirtualPC (which I've heard of people having success w/). Either one will be insanely slow. I'd recommend a cheap 486 computer instead. But if you're really desperate you can always try it out by downloading the floppy disk... - alex A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message