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Re: Off Topic: alternative O/S



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? This would running Metastock under Win32 (of Windows 2000), ie NOT an
alternative O/S

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve" <stevers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: Off Topic: alternative O/S


> VMware  http://www.vmware.com/
> You'll need Win2k.....you can run Linux under Win2k or vice versa
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lionel Issen" <lissen@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 3:54 AM
> Subject: Re: Off Topic: alternative O/S
>
>
> > Theo:
> > You are correct; however I had seen references to software utilities
that
> > could get a Linux system to run Windows programs. Not perfect but fairly
> > useable.  Now if I could only remember where I read about it. At that
time
> I
> > had no interest in Linux or any other operating systems. Microsoft's
> recent
> > announcement about 3 year leases for its O/S has got me interested in
> > alternatives.
> >
> > Since Metastock is supposed to be "largely written in C and C++", it
might
> > not be too difficult or expensive to compile it under Linux. I'm not a
> > programmer, so what I have just said may not be feasible.
> >
>
>