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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!surfnet.nl!sun4nl!Utrecht.NL.net!news.iaf.nl!news.es.iaf.nl!yedi!wilko From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Subject: Re: FreeBSD working with Win95 programs Organization: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands Message-ID: <DsLAJJ.H6@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <01bb52f6.c04e25c0$12161d86@Dialin-018.Mankato.MSUS.EDU> <31B63380.3C5B@www.play-hookey.com> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 17:42:55 GMT Lines: 17 Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> writes: >Henriette wrote: >> >> Can any windows95 programs run smoothly under freebsd? >NO! >Different Operating Systems, different methods, different rules. They can >co-reside on the hard drive because they are in separate partitions, but >only one is running at a time. Having said that, chances of ever getting some kind of W95 emulation are not very big either. (considering the affection of the average FreeBSD user for MS products in general ;-) Wilko