| Title: | "ASK THE WIZARDS" |
| Moderator: | QUARK::LIONEL |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Mon May 12 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1857 |
| Total number of notes: | 3728 |
Return-Path: "VMS001::WWW"@vms001.das-x.dec.com Received: by vmsmkt.zko.dec.com (UCX V4.1-12, OpenVMS V6.2 VAX); Mon, 5 May 1997 06:19:28 -0400 Received: from vms001 by mail11.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.5/1.0/WV) id GAA00367; Mon, 5 May 1997 06:14:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 05:13:23 -0400 Message-Id: <[email protected]> From: "VMS001::WWW"@vms001.das-x.dec.com (05-May-1997 0513) To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Ask the Wizard: '[email protected]' X-VMS-To: [email protected] Remote Host: ppp72.adelaide.on.net.au Browser Type: Mozilla/2.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Remote Info: <null> Name: Jeremy Malcolm BEGG Email Address: [email protected] CPU Architecture: VAX and Alpha Version: V 7.1 Questions: I'm an OpenVMS specialist who has very suddenly been required to start using MicroSoft Office, but I don't own a PC and have no immediate intention of acquiring one -- especially as I've just purchased an AlphaStation 255/300 to replace my VAXstation 3100/30. It occurred to me that the combination of Bristol Technolgies' Wind/U product and Digital's FX!32 product might be used to form the basis of an emulation environment suitable for running the latest MS applications. Are you aware of any plans to develop such a product? (I've heard of SoftWindows but it's my understanding that it does only Win3.11.)
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| 1841.1 | Dual-boot available now... | XDELTA::HOFFMAN | Steve, OpenVMS Engineering | Mon May 05 1997 15:51 | 16 |
The Wizard cannot comment on future plans for emulating the Windows NT environment under OpenVMS. FX!32 and similar technologies translate/emulate the Intel Windows NT environment under the Alpha Windows NT environment -- this is a very different task from translating/emulating a Windows NT package under OpenVMS or another operating system. In your particular situation, a dual-boot system is one immediately available option: one has OpenVMS on one disk, and Windows NT on another. (The AlphaStation 255 requires an extra step or two when switching from the SRM console to the AlphaBIOS console, due to the system's "half-flash" design. "Full-flash" Alpha systems can have both console programs resident, and can switch with a single command.) | |||||