From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) Subject: Re: "Killer app" Date: 24 May 1993 19:15:43 GMT
On 21 May 93 12:25:18 GMT, jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov said:
> In article <1th751INNise@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> dthumim@athena.mit.edu (Daniel J Thumim) writes:
>>I saw this wonderful announcement here about how Sun users will be able
>>to run MS-Windoze apps on their SPARCs and that the interface standard
>>for windoze apps will be open. What does this mean for us?
> I think this is an excellent idea!!! Could the current DOSEMU or XDOS
> be used as a starting point ?
For Windoze-3.0, yes. It should be possible to run real-mode 3.0
under dosemu. Windoze-3.1 is a protected mode program, however, and
would be *very* much harder to support, if it could be done at all.
As of version 3.1, Windoze does not support real mode. (This is quite
proper. since real mode support was crippling performance).
Anyway, Microsoft are apparently *very* unhappy with SunSelect's
announcement of a Windows emulator ("WABI") for Suns; they have said
they will use every available method to protect their proprietary
Windows technology. So I don't know how successful WABI will actually
be; but I'd sure like them to consider selling it for Linux!
Cheers,
Stephen.