From: barspi@wam.umd.edu (Barzilai Spinak) Subject: Re: dosemu and windows Date: 31 May 1993 02:24:36 GMT
In article <1993May30.172026.689@solace.hsh.se> jocke@solace.hsh.se (Jocke Berglund) writes:
>Hi, after test running dosemu 0.49 and seeing that it can run windows 3.0 (real)
>I got a thought about the WABI product of SUN, aka able to run windows
> programs without windows in X, wouldn't that be an great feature to try to
> get linux to do. WABI maps all the windows calls inte X calls, so to be able
> to do so with linux, someone (not me) has to break down several programs
> or get the docs from microsoft (Nah i don't think that they will let go of
> that level of information) but anyway the windows emulation should be able to run in
> pure 32 bit mode, I think.
>
>Thanks to the writers of dosemu. :)
(Listen, I don't know what I'm talking about...)
I think that what you mean is emulating the MS-Windoze API. I don't think
that is too difficult, (tiresome maybe, but not difficult), and any book on
Windoze programming gives a list of the calls and everything. But I think that
there's more to Windoze than that. And you always have the case of ill-behaved
programs who will do something unexpected.
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