From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) Subject: Re: dosemu and windows Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 21:27:50 GMT
In article <1993Jun1.201657.8220@sol.UVic.CA> pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
>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.
I agree. The way to go is the WABI way - emulating a machine will just
add a lot of overhead. I should also point out that if we do a good job with
something along the lines of WABI, there would be no pressing need to write a
new wordprocessor to wean the DOS users to linux.
-Eric
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