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Article #80Re: Linux on Windows 95 or Windows NT?
From: ian reinhart geiser
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 00:00
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On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Rob Nelson wrote: > Um. Linux IS an operating system. Unlike win95, it doesn't run on anything like > dos - just itself. > > actually no windows cannot run linux but linux can run windows: bochs - low level portable (slow) x86 emulator xdos - slightly faster dos emulator wabi - Windows emulator wine - Better windows emulator in fact linux can run almost every known OS i have ever used: vMac - Macintosh Plus UAE - Amiga 500 bochs - i386 xmame - almost any arcade game from the 80's frodos - Comidor 64 emulator ....etc Linux is the future. What it cannot run, it will emulate! -ian reinhart geiser .-----------------------------------------------------------. |[] NeXT Generation [X]| |--------------------------,--------------------------------. | PC Network Specialist, | Office: CCSD Data Center | | Macintosh Specialist @ | Phone: 414.277.4528 | | Milwaukee School of | | | Engineering |--------------------------------| | | | | ian reinhart geiser | phone: 414.220.9683 | | Apt #510A | email: geiseri@msoe.edu | | 1029 N Jackson St | web: www.msoe.edu/~geiseri | | Milwaukee, WI 53202 | NeXT/Be/Cyberdog Mail okay! | | | MIME or BinHex prefered | |--------------------------'--------------------------------| '-----------------------------------------------------------'
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,73fbbf5ce1ee0391 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,73fbbf5ce1ee0391 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: fd581,73fbbf5ce1ee0391 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd581,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,73fbbf5ce1ee0391 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: ian reinhart geiser <geiseri@msoe.edu> Subject: Re: Linux on Windows 95 or Windows NT? Date: 1998/07/03 Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980703115849.4726B-100000@torres.msoe.edu> X-Deja-AN: 368445834 References: <6nb0b3$3q2@inferno.mpx.com.au> <Pine.OSF.3.96.980702211317.16468A-100000@mozart.inet.co.th> <33BB2913.FDDD278D@vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Nelson <ronelson@vt.edu> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.powerpc,aus.computers.linux