If you have a 386, 486, or Pentium-based PC with a VGA card, mouse, at least 8 Mb of RAM and 100 Mb of available disk space, you can run WAVE under Linux, a freely available UNIX clone for the PC.
If you have any networked computer that can run X11R4 or a later version (this includes all current UNIX workstations, PCs, Macintoshes, and a variety of other systems), and access via network to either a SPARCstation or a PC running Linux, you can run WAVE remotely (see the next question).
Otherwise, you're out of luck at present. WAVE requires X11R4 or later and the XView toolkit (both are freely available in source form for UNIX systems). See Setup for details if you would like to try porting WAVE to another version of UNIX.
Other DB applications (WVIEW for Microsoft Windows, VIEW for MS-DOS, MacView for the Macintosh, dbtool for SunView, dbplot for a variety of graphics terminals and plotters under UNIX, and pschart and psfd for PostScript devices) offer many of the display features of WAVE in other environments; none of these currently support annotation editing or control of external programs, however.