From owner-freebsd-emulation Sat Dec 7 19:27:19 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id TAA23180 for emulation-outgoing; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 19:27:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from dns.pinpt.com (dns.pinpt.com [205.179.195.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id TAA23175 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 19:27:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from journeyman.pinpt.com (gatemaster.pinpt.com [205.179.195.65]) by dns.pinpt.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA14606; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 19:26:50 -0800 Date: Sat, 7 Dec 96 19:19:06 PST From: "Sean J. Schluntz" Subject: Re: status of windows, dos and svr4 emulation To: "Pedro Giffuni S." , "Sean J. Schluntz" Cc: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Chameleon ATX 6.0, Standards Based IntraNet Solutions, NetManage Inc. X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <32A941E6.1C45@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > >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. > > > I couldnīt get the price of the SUN version, but if it runs, SVR4 > emulation may be worth having: WABI 2.2 supports OLE/DDE, ODBC, and many > more applications. > Perhaps someone with NetBSD, or OpenBSD, can give a try to the demo > version available at: > http://www.sun.com/solaris/products/wabi/support/distribute/wabi22demo.html I think I would rather run the Linux version, I hear it's faster because they didn't need to compile in a lot of Solaris garbage. It's supposed to be cleaner and faster under Linux. -Sean (then again all I know is PR.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean J. Schluntz 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: 12/07/96 19:19:07 ----------------------------------------------------------------------