pls. give me information about 'WABI'

pls. give me information about 'WABI'

Post by Mark Land » Sat, 18 Jul 1998 04:00:00




>Hi,

>  Does 'WABI' comes along Solaris unix?

I don't know.

Quote:>  Does WABI comes with Solaris 2.5.1 version ?
I don't know.
>  If so, can I open word7.0 documents without installing Windows(NT,95)
>  Operating  Systems on Solaris Workstations?

No. WABI is an emulation of 16-bit Windows 3.11.
For 95 emulation, look at SoftWindows 95 from Insignia Solutions,
or Citrix MetaFrame and/or Microsoft Windows 4.0 Terminal Server
Edition. The latter two allow you to set up a multi-user NT server
that runs all the applications locally, and sends the display and
accepts keyboard/mouse input from things like an X client.

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pls. give me information about 'WABI'

Post by M. Maxwel » Sat, 18 Jul 1998 04:00:00



> Hi,

>   Does 'WABI' comes along Solaris unix?
>   Does WABI comes with Solaris 2.5.1 version ?
>   If so, can I open word7.0 documents without installing Windows(NT,95)
>   Operating  Systems on Solaris Workstations?

Well, I don't know for certain if it comes *with* Solaris, or if it's
an add-on package, but I *have* used WABI before and it does not run
32-bit applications.  You're pretty much limited to Win3.1/3.11.  I
had an older version of MS-Office running under Wabi/Win3.11 once
(forget which version), but the performance was less than stellar.  

Wabi is (if I'm not mistaken) a dead beast these days, too.

There is another project called "Wine" (which is free) that is
supposedly capable of running many 32-bit Windows-95 applications
(www.winehq.org, I think) and I believe there are some other
commercial offerings out there, too.

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