York University FirstClass Client

[Taavi Burns]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:45:19 +1000, David Colebatch
<david-nuEF980otx7IfpyC97YFaV6hYfS7NtTn at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Monday 27 September 2004 12:22, Austin wrote:
> > The secret for me was to install Win98, boot into win98, install
> > scifinder, then boot back into linux, configure wine to use /mnt/windows
> > as the windows root, and then scifinder ran perfectly.  I use it all the
> > time without any problems.
> 
> Have you seen Bochs?  it's a x86 Emulator, and you can install, say, windows
> and have it run in a window, under X11... if you follow my drift.
> 
> http://bochs.sourceforge.net/

Bochs is free and good and all...but also generally painfully slow.  It's a full
CPU/machine emulator package, unlike WINE or VMWare, which both run
native binaries natively, and emulate the system calls/hardware (respectively).
Now, this does mean that you can run Bochs on a Mac...but that's not at issue
here. :)

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