Summary: Win 95 simulation software for Solaris 2.x -

Jianguo Sun (sun1@marque.mscs.mu.edu)
Sun, 30 Mar 1997 23:10:00 -0600 (CST)

My original question was:
> Does anyone know there are Win95 simulation software (free or comercial)
> available?
>
The answers are:
Marc S. Gibian <gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil> wrote:
SoftWindows by Insignia, a recently announced release, though we are running the
prior release and it is SLOW.
Sunpc from Sun appears to work as well, but I am less sure.
My customer has needed to run DOS applications as well as some Windows 3.1 stuff
on their SPARCstations, due to lack of source code to them, and thus Win95 is
not an issue.

Andi Paton
email : apaton@wtl1.demon.co.uk wrote:
SUN SunPC 133-Mhz 5x86 coprocessor(SBus) + Software. This runs MS-DOS and
Windows (3.x and 95) applications. If you go for this option, I would
look at the amount of memory required, SunPC works best with 16Mb of
My original question was:
> Does anyone know there are Win95 simulation software (free or comercial)
> available?
>
The answers are:
Marc S. Gibian <gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil> wrote:
SoftWindows by Insignia, a recently announced release, though we are running the
prior release and it is SLOW.
Sunpc from Sun appears to work as well, but I am less sure.
My customer has needed to run DOS applications as well as some Windows 3.1 stuff
on their SPARCstations, due to lack of source code to them, and thus Win95 is
not an issue.

Andi Paton
email : apaton@wtl1.demon.co.uk wrote:
SUN SunPC 133-Mhz 5x86 coprocessor(SBus) + Software. This runs MS-DOS and
Windows (3.x and 95) applications. If you go for this option, I would
look at the amount of memory required, SunPC works best with 16Mb of
its own memory, so you might need to upgrade.
The list price approx 500 STERLING.

Justin Young <justiny@cluster.engr.subr.edu> wrote:
Check http://www.insiginia.com/. Look for Softwindows 95.

Matthew Stier
mstier@hotmail.com wrote:
It is possible to run Windows95 under the latest release of WABI.
However, using Tektronix' WinDD or Insignia's NTrigue is a better solution for
running Windows 95 apps in a unix environment.

<jasonn@nabaus.com.au> wrote:
try using the fvwm-95, win95 look alike window manager, not the answer you
want but alot of fun.

Mohammed Ali. <ali@platinum.com> wrote:
checkout wabi from SUN, it allows you to run windows applications on
your sun box.

Thanks for all your replies.
Jian

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