SUMMARY : Networked applications inside Windows emulators

From: Beppe Coffano (Beppe.Coffano@its.it)
Date: Wed Feb 22 1995 - 11:01:13 CST


Hi to all,

the original question was :

> We are planning to run a Windows 3.1 application inside Wabi 2.0 or Softwindows 1.1 .
> This application is build on top of Tcp/Ip (Pcnfs by Sun).
> Does Wabi or Softwindows support networked Windows application like that ?
> Thank you very much in advance.

At posting time we thought two wrong things :
1) The question could be ridicolous a little.
2) Obviously it doesn't work.

Now we can say :
1) It is NOT : it's a hot problem. Many people are interested in.
2) It is NOT : it works !
Actually Softwindows gives NDIS support, so it is possible to install a TCP/IP stack for PC inside the emulator.
We successfully tried with Pcnfs v. 5.0 ; it also suited the NIS environment without problem.
A limit of Softwindows is 80286 emulation only (I'm waiting for a confirmation by Insignia).
If you need further information to configure properly Softwindows for NDIS support be free to send me a message.
I'll provide you with the instruction that Andrew Warriner by Insignia gently sent to me (not included here because a little long).

WABI : at the moment it has no support for networked (Tcp/Ip) applications.

Another solution is a Pentium PC Server with NT 3.5 to run the PC applications and use one of the emerging X-client translators (for example WinDD by Tektronix) on the PC Server to send its display back to a workstation/X-terminal.

Many many thanks to Andrew Warriner (andrew.warriner@insignia.co.uk) .
And also to :
Mike Phillips - mike.phillips@ukpmr.cs.philips.nl
Greg Roberts - gregr@cibc.com
Ted Nolan - ted@ags.ga.erg.sri.com
Don Lenamond - sunrise!don@rambone.psi.net

Beppe
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From: Andrew Warriner <andrew.warriner@insignia.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Networked applications inside Windows emulators

Dear Sir,

Further to your e-mail regarding SoftWindows, as you are aware SoftWindows
currently emulates the hardware of an 80286 IBM compatible PC. Applications
that require a 386 or higher processor are not supported on this product but
will be supported in the new SoftWindows Version 2 which will be emulating a
486DX processor. This product should be available in the second quarter of this year.

Many regards,
Andrew Warriner.



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