Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 15:38:13 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk (Developer) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux Willows? Message-ID: <199608052238.PAA12141@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960803180319.28335A-100000@fgate.flevel.co.uk> from "Developer" at Aug 3, 96 06:04:00 pm
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> Could someone explain what Linux Willow is and where to get a copy of it > from? Willows Software ( http://www.willows.com/ ) produces a product called "The Willows Toolkit"; it used to be called "TWIN". The purpose of this toolkit is to allow you to compile Windows apps for UNIX, Mac, and other systems (apparently they are doing conversion to JAVA now?!?). In addition, they have a program that comes with the toolkit that allows you to run Windows Apps on your UNIX/Mac system. It has two modes: one with an emulated 386, and one using LDT/GDT ops to run on a local 386 in protected mode. Willows Software has made the toolkit and emulation module available to the free UNIX community, not just Linux. There was a list for people who had agreed to their non-disclosure and obtained the software for porting to FreeBSD. Sujal Patel was the primary source of FreeBSD fixes (I am also on the list). I haven't seen any traffic on the list for quite some time now. There was at least a beta version (their code, plus our patches) up for FTP on their site for FreeBSD. I believe that the changes have been sufficiently radical in -current that the code needs some work, but it was running Windows apps sufficiently to run MSWord on the 386 emulator under FreeBSD, and Sujal was working on some stack problems for running using the native processor in protected mode... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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