From: slater@gandalf.nrlssc.navy.mil (Rick Slater) Subject: Re: dosemu and windows Date: 3 Jun 1993 10:07:54 -0400
>It occurs to me that Windows 3.x may be a bad thing to emulate.
>This is because Windows 3.1 runs on only ONE architecture, the
>80x86 -- which means that Windows programmers can get away with
>the same nonsense that DOS programmers do -- accessing the hardware
>and low-level interfaces directly! A better (???) way of adding
rs>
rs> They're not supposed to under Windows. I doubt that dirty tricks
rs> of *this* nature will be a major problem.
rs> ...
rs> I'm afraid this isn't really an option. Now, everyone can tell me how
rs> easy it should be, if only...
Windows 3.1 apps already run under X windows with the Sun WABI interface,
which translates windows calls into X calls. Sun, USL, IBM, SCO, Toshiba,
and NCI are all planning to bundle WABI with their systems. Looks like
those folks have already done what is being talked about here. To quote
from SunWorld, June 1993: "... WABI is written in C using conventional
X libraries, making it easy for SunSelect to hop WABI from SPARC to
other computers". Of course, Microsoft is threatening to sue Sun over
all of this, but then what's new about that? :)