[SunRescue] Solaris 2.5.1

[Cyrus M. Reed]

I have Wabi running on 2.5.1 on a Sparc 10.  It will run Win16 (aka Win
3.1) binaries, but NOT Win32 stuff (like Win95 apps).  You will need a set
of Windows 3.1 or 3.11 disks to set it up as well.  It does work well for
what it was designed for, but isn't totally useful unless you have some
Win3.x app you really want to run.  You probably want the patches for
2.5.1 as well.  Unfortuantely those broke my other emulator environment,
MAE 2.0. :(  I tried to get the patches from Apple to fix it (it's a known
problem), however they are now nonexistent except for the occasional web
reference.  I even e-mailed the Apple web support.  But I digress...

-Cyrus

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Eric Hall wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I just "won" a copy of Solaris 2.5.1 from ebay.
> I dunno, I just wanted it cause it had a box, and
> some books and stuff. And I was curious about
> this "wabi" thing. Will it really run Windows binaries
> on sparc platforms? Besides that, are there any
> gotchas with 2.5.1?  All comments welcome,
> they will all be read!
> 
> Thanks, Eric H