[ale] OT Windows Requirements in Universities was VM ? (addendum: without windows licenses?)

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 13:57 -0500, Brian Pitts wrote:

> As a political science student at Emory, the only times I've had to
> use Windows involved running statistical software. GNU PSPP isn't
> anywhere close to duplicating SPSS. The computer science courses
> (other than the Java intros) tend to rely on such obscure or out of
> date software that it's better just to run it on the Slowlaris lab
> machines.


Doesn't Linux have a mechanism for running binaries from other Unix and
Unix-like systems, or is that bound to just the processor that they were
built for?

    ? Mike

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