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Re: MS apps on Solaris x86
Or better yet get the Caldera release of linux and its application suite, which
includes WABI and WordPerfect. It costs money, though. But trade off your
time
vs. getting useful work done.
Vince
On Apr 1, 2:46am, John Joowon Lee wrote:
> Subject: MS apps on Solaris x86
> Hello,
>
> I recall that Steve Hurl* expressed, not long ago, that it would be
> useful to run MS Office on Linux. I thought I might point out that
> SunSoft of Sun Microsystems has Solaris 2.5 available for the *86
> architecture; Solaris can run WABI, which is capable of running quite
> a number of Windows applications, but only those developed for Windows
> 3.*. For a URL with information, goto http://www.yahoo.com and search
> for 'Solaris'. BYTE magazine had a review of WABI in the summer of 1995,
> encouragingly entitled 'A Less Wobbly WABI'.
>
> (I have no affiliation with Sun.)
>
> John Lee
> jjl9@cornell.edu
>-- End of excerpt from John Joowon Lee
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