Windows Emulation on Linux

When you just can't avoid using a Microsoft Windows-based application, and dual booting just isn't good enough, there are several alternatives available.

VMware can run nearly any version of Windows in a "virtual machine", which appears as an X window under Linux (or vice versa, if you happen to be running Windows as your primary OS :-). This is a commercial product, with a price (as of October 2001) of approximately US$300 for the workstation version. An evaluation copy is available.
NeTraverse Win4Lin is a Windows emulator for Linux. Version 3.0 (current as of October 2001) supports Windows 95 and Windows 98 only, for a cost of US$80. They don't offer an evaluation copy, but they do promise "a 30-day money back guarantee and full purchase refund upon request".
Lindows is a Linux-based operating system that claims to run both Linux and Windows binaries.
In contrast to the above, Plex86 and Bochs are open source projects. As of October 2001 Bochs supports Windows 95 and NT, while Plex86 is still in development.
No list of Windows emulators would be complete without the non-emulator, WINE
Finally, if MS-DOS is all you need, there's always DOSEMU

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