From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Howlin' Bob) Subject: Re: Linux beoming a real choice? (WABI?) Date: 30 Jun 1993 23:40:21 GMT
In <1993Jun30.214242.15740@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
>>allows Unix/X windows to directly run MS-"Windows" without the need for
>>x86 emulation and without the need of MS-"Windows". This means that the
>>applications will run under WABI as fast as on a native MS-"DOS"/ MS-"Windows"
>>machine. [...]
>MS-Windows without x86 emulation? How ya gonna do that?
He was half right; the WABI kernel will be a native application, instead
of running the Windows kernel in x86-emulation. Windows applications will
still be run in an x86 emulator.
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Robert Sanders
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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