From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) Subject: Re: dosemu and windows Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 20:16:57 GMT
In article <1993Jun1.181301.7313@cs.cornell.edu> dulitz@cs.cornell.edu (Dan Dulitz) writes:
>In article <1993May31.212901.8476@magma.mines.colorado.edu>,
> vgough@mines.colorado.edu (Valiant Gough) writes:
>
...
>Emulating the Windows entry points directly isn't much easier. There
>are hundreds of them, including True-Type rendering. Do you really
>want to spend your time writing stuff like that? And once you're
>"done," you'll have to work hard to deal with Win4.0 (if it comes out,
>but it probably will).
>
>The reason I'm writing this emulator is so that Win3.1 will run under
>Linux. Don't hold your breath. It will be months, at *least*, until
The problem with this approach is that you will then have the overhead
of running both Windows and windows apps. The WABI interface (I think)
achieves a 70% performance boost by doing the entry point thing.
Also, you would have to have a copy of MS Windows to use the apps.
And, you probably could get just implement a subset of them at first,
just enough to get most apps running, and doing more as time permits.
Win4.0, may not be an issue, if the control is wrestled from the
iron grip of MS.
Peter