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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!csn!hellgate.utah.edu!cc.usu.edu!ivie 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 References: <1993May20.234750.5815@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1993May21.135304.21185@cm.cf.ac.uk> <1u2er1$foe@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> Distribution: world Organization: Utah State University Lines: 17 In article <1u2er1$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