Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:26:49 -0400 From: Mark Abene <phiber@radicalmedia.com> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: em86 Message-ID: <20000731182649.P2866@radicalmedia.com> In-Reply-To: <14725.40416.628136.782665@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from Andrew Gallatin on Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:42:22AM -0400 References: <20000731051254.M2866@radicalmedia.com> <14725.33823.884653.998738@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20000731112927.O2866@radicalmedia.com> <14725.40416.628136.782665@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:42:22AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Mark Abene writes: > > > > Was this the latest 2.2-1 em86? My rationale for getting it to work is for > > office productivity apps, such as WordPerfect and StarOffice. We're in bad > > need of such a thing. > > Applix at least seems to work.. Are you referring to Applix for Tru64, or is there an alphalinux Applix? The problem is Applix is commercial, and WordPerfect and StarOffice are both totally free for personal use on Linux/x86, hence my argument for them. > > Do you know if these work under em86 on alpha-linux? In fact, do you > know of an em86 that works at all under RH-6.x? I think that em86 > stopped working (even on linux/alpha) after RH 5.2.. > > Drew > I was using em86 on RedHat 6.0 with kernel 2.2.9 a while ago, and x86 apps ran perfectly *except* for the fact that they couldn't create files, which made them pretty useless. I don't think anyone ever pursued this problem, though it affected everyone (not just me). I will say that the speed at which WordPerfect ran under em86 was very impressive, even though I couldn't save anything. :) So I still think em86 would be a worthy pursuit... -Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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