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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!news.byu.edu!cwis.isu.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Subject: Re: DOS/Windows under 386bsd (is there such?) Message-ID: <1993May28.022119.2373@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT) References: <BLYMN.93May26170510@siren.awadi.com.au> <1tvrvo$eqa@umd5.umd.edu> <1u2er1$foe@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> Date: Fri, 28 May 93 02:21:19 GMT Lines: 24 In article <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. It's possible (in fact, it's been done). The main problem is pretending you are a 386 if you're not, and rewriting all of the MS-Windows provided DLL's for drawing and I/O and such. It's available for Solaris (386/486/SPARC) and NextStep (486 only). See one of the recent issues of SunWorld (I can't remember which one; sorry). I would be much more interested in source compatability, which no one has provided (yet). Terry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.