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#! rnews 1101 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!not-for-mail From: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Gellekum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why would one want a Linux emulator? Date: 19 Jul 1995 11:45:42 GMT Organization: <this space intentionally left blank> Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3uir96$di3@news.rwth-aachen.de> References: <3ui06u$ggc@clue.callamer.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950621BETA PL0] Christopher Paul (cpaul@tcf.com) wrote: > Can anyone tell my why one would want a Linux emulator? Well, some folks want long sigs, some folks want to run their MS-Windows programs, some folks also want to run their first steps in Turbo Pascal and some want to run native Linux applications. The latter is probably due to a number of ports to Linux, ranging from WordPerfect over Mathematica and OI to Doom, where the companies in question don't (want to) put out a port to FreeBSD or BSDI for whatever reason. tg