Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:55:41 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> To: Daniel Berlin <root@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uncle Sam, got a million bucks? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980306173942.15728A-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980306200732.4704A-100000@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu>
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On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Daniel Berlin wrote: > SCO's merge 4.0 supports win95 under openserver. > Networking and all. > Runs it in an x window or full screen. > Also, if you have multiple processors, you'll have a faster win95 than > win95 So what? One still has to pay Microsoft for a license, so it's not much different from having another box with Windows or running Windows in x86 emulator. AFAIK inefficient networking is one of the least our worries with Windows. > On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Get a grant for Win32 on FreeBSD first. 8-). And? Get in the whole lot of trouble with trade secrets, patents and reverse-engineering at the first attempt of soing anything marginally useful in it? I'll rather spend time/money/coffee on decent alternative to X11 or its extension with high-level functionality in server, as it will be more, realistic way to compete with Microsoft, and as opposed to copying their design, it will actually provide something useful for people, who really need computers. -- Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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