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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!easix!knobel!andreas From: andreas@knobel.GUN.de (Andreas Klemm) Subject: Re: DOS/Windows under 386bsd (is there such?) Organization: Andreas Klemm, D-4040 Neuss 21 References: <1993May20.234750.5815@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1993May21.135304.21185@cm.cf.ac.uk> <BLYMN.93May26170510@siren.awadi.com.au> <1tvrvo$eqa@umd5.umd.edu> <1u2er1$foe@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> Message-ID: <1993May30.092731.1477@knobel.GUN.de> Date: Sun, 30 May 93 09:27:31 GMT Lines: 29 In <1u2er1$foe@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> lessen@axion.bt.co.uk (Lee Essen) writes: |It's my understanding that all of the IO functionality of windows applications |is handled by the DLL's, calls to which are resolved at load/run time. |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!) |Anyway, just an idea... It is possible. SUN offers with Solaris 2.2. WABI means W_indows A_pplication B_inary I_nterface. All windows programs that make proper use of DLL's (as I understood) which hold on certain (to me unknoen) Windows programming conventions run under Solaris 2.2. This product should be sold bundeled with the OS as I heard from SUN Germany. Let's see how Microsoft reacts .... -- ---- Andreas Klemm ------- /////// andreas@knobel.GUN.de \\\\\\\ private : +49 2137 12609 D-4040 Neuss 21 (Norf), Germany at work : +49 2173 3964 161 Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Telefax : +49 2173 3964 222 Abteilung Unix Support, D-4019 Monheim