Emulating SUN3 or SUN4 kernel in cygwin

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Anyone has any idea about how to emulate a SUN3 or SUN4 kernel in cygwin under windows 7?

I want to run these two softwares SUPREM IV GS and SEDAN III. The are free to download and use from http://www-tcad.stanford.edu/
It seems from the makefile that it uses sun3 / sun4 architecture and was compiled around 1994.

Please report me any success.

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It'd probably be pretty ugly... Cygwin emulates a UNIX-like shell environment on Widows, but not a whole lot of the underlying system, especially graphics which I imagine your desired programs use heavily. The "TOOLS" page I looked at indicates that you might be able to get it running under some types of Linux, so that might be a better approach. IIRC SUNOS was not be entirely POSIX compliant, so some of the underlying sys and lib calls may not match current reality.
 
I have access to RHEL 4,5,6 linux. Will I be able to run them there? What will be changed in the Makefile?