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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!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!relay.philips.nl!cnplss5!rooij From: rooij@mozart.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) Subject: Re: DOS/Windows under 386bsd (is there such?) Message-ID: <1993May27.154636.1346@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl> Sender: news@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: mozart Organization: Philips Communications & Processing Services, Eindhoven 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> Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 15:46:36 GMT Lines: 23 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... >Lee. Sun is doing just that as far as I understood, with their WABI. A thread is going on in comp.unix.misc about it. It seems that you can run windows applications under WABI: it contains no real windows kernel but just simulates the API. -Guido