Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:15:49 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Gerard Korver <isnet@g-net.net> Cc: www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Compatibility_with_Windows=B495_programs?= Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970217101022.6933E-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199702162340.SAA01747@ultrasparc-3.g-net.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Gerard Korver wrote: > I was desperately saerching for an operating system, which would be better > than Windows'95. We do not like it, because it crashes everytime. We also > have got a network installed and that only works temporaroly, we even > bought one of the most expensive 3com cards from this month, that did not > help either. This Pc is just new, it is a Pentium 200 with 32 MB of Ram a > 2.5 GB Hard Disk, a 12x speed CD-ROM drive and a diamond graphics card. But > Windows is Windows, and it makes the system slower everytime. I would like > to receive some more information about your operating system, can it run > Windows'95 applications? How do we purchase it? FreeBSD is a UNIX-style operating system for PCs and compatibles. At current, it can run Windows 3.1 applications using the Wine Windows emulator, but not Windows95 applications. Further information regarding FreeBSD is available at http://www.freebsd.org. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major PS: Sounds like the PnP BIOS in your machine is broken or you have the IRQ of the network card allocated to another device. Make sure the network card has unique resources.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSI.3.94.970217101022.6933E-100000>