From: ins213g@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Goh Yan Chang) Subject: Re: WINUX, the free WINDOWS(TM)-Simulator now available! Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1993 06:26:20 GMT
bernd@iamk4515.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bernd Wiebelt) writes:
>
>And now it's time for something you have been waiting for
>a long, loooong time:
>Macrosoft proudly presents:
>WINUX, the one and only WINDOWS(TM)-Emulator for Linux.
>WINUX has been tested on a lot of hardware platforms,
>a lot of (secret) beta-testing went along, and so we are
>now able to release a first pre-gamma-version to the public.
>HIGHLIGHTS:
>- runs most Windows clients out of the box, but still has some
> problems with most Microsoft applications (undocumented
> features of Windows are not yet supported).
> Working clients include:
> Corel Draw 4.0, AmiPro (Professional Edition),
> Borland ++C for Windows, Lotus 4-5-6...
>- Doubles speed by using GNU-C instead of Microsoft C 7.0.
> (Assembly version is in the pipeline)
>- Supports all known graphic cards, especially the brand new
> IBM-MDA-video-adapters.
>- Super-easy-installation. All you have to do is boot the first disk.
> Everything else is menu-driven.
>- Hole system fits on only ten 3.5-disks, including all clients
> of the original WINDOWS-distribution.
>- For your leisure, there is a stripped version of WING-Commander
> as screen-saver (only dog fights, no story).
>And now for the most important part:
>WINUX is available for FREE at
>lipra.eth.irfst.edu in /pub/Systems/UNIX/Linux/GammaTest/windows/WINUX
Is this the right address?
I can't use ftp to get there. It replies unknown host...
Anyone has got it there?
>login as user Gill , password Bates
>And be sure to have some free space on your workstation left...
-yan chang-
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