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From: ivie@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: DOS/Windows under 386bsd (is there such?)
Message-ID: <1993May27.094255.68574@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 27 May 93 09:42:55 MDT
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In article <1u2er1$foe@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk>, lessen@axion.bt.co.uk (Lee Essen) writes:
> 
> If this is the case, then it must be possible to have a system that provides
> all the functionality of the DLL's but for X, so you could run windows
> applications under X on a [34]86 system running unix.
> 
> I'm sure that there are a million reasons why this can't be done! (If it were
> possible, I'm sure a lot more people would trash their DOS/Windows partitions -
> I know I would!)

I think that this is the sort of thing that Sun's WABI does. Also, Novell's
UnixWare runs Windows programs on Unix, although I haven't found a local site
to play with yet (I'm aware of one that will be installing soon, but they're
not ready for me to torture their box yet).

Roger Ivie
ivie@cc.usu.edu