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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!uunet!199.60.229.3!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Status of DOS emulation? Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 22:56:15 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3397A67F.7DE14518@FreeBSD.org> References: <3395E137.167EB0E7@javanet.com> <hscottEBA3vE.LE1@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Harold Scott <hscott@netcom.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42487 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6079 Harold Scott wrote: > I asked the same question and was told that real dos emu is not supported. > I hear about a bsd desktop distribution, which I would run tomorrow if it > would support my dos applications. It won't, I'm afraid. > I don't want to switch to linux, but it does do what I need today. If what you need to do is run DOS/Windows apps then actually my very best recommendation is to run Win95. :-) Using either Linux or FreeBSD to run Windows stuff is just silly. Sure, you can do a little bit with Wine and a little bit more with WABI, but if Windows apps are what you want then running Windows is unquestionably the best way to use them with any reliability and if I needed to run DOS/Windows apps with any frequency (and I don't) then I'd simply build another box, load NT on it and then use NTrigue from NCD to put an NT session wherever I wanted it. The NT box probably wouldn't even have a monitor attached. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.