Re: Linux + Win95 simultaneously

Phil Brutsche (pbrutsch@creighton.edu)
Tue, 4 Nov 1997 09:55:14 -0600 (CST)


On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Mr M S Aitchison wrote:

> > From rgb@phy.duke.edu Tue Nov 4 11:47:52 1997
> > On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Mike Sharkey wrote:
> > > ... I have to ask myself why would many people want this? It seems
> > > easier and more reliable to just run win95 on another box joined to your
> > > linux box by ethernet...
>
> Not always convenient/affordable.
That is what I was trying to say. Thank you!

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> I like this idea. There's some scheme like this coming (here?) for
> OS/2 but I don't have the URL handy. It might be nice to have
> something like an incremental compile where the first time an app runs
> the system creates a translated executable as it goes, saving it for
> later runs.
Sounds like the FX!32 thing that NT alphas use to run x86 binaries.

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