On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Ingo Adlung wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, John Summerfield wrote: > > >On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Richard Troth wrote: > > > >> What WINE does is intercept the Windows system calls. > >> (gross simplification) WINE runs on any x86 Unix because they > >> share the same instruction set. The Windows programs execute > >> whatever x86 code they contain, but when a system call is made > >> it traps to WINE and is handled with Unix resouces. > >> > >> WINE does not run on just any Linux because the > >> instruction set must be x86. Gotta be Linux on a PC. > > > >I wonder whether that is actually true. I have a Windows NT 4 CD here > >someplace, and as I recall it supports two architectures. > > > >I don't recall whether the other is Alpha or Sparc or something else. > >According to the book, it supports MIPS 4X00, Alpha, PowerPC. > > On Intel you have the option using the Windows binaries that are > trapped into native Linux calls. On anything but Intel you must > compile your Windows sources for your target system and use the Wine > libaries that are also compiled for the same target platform. > > > > >Wine itself might port quite easily. Actually getting the proprietary > >applications to run might be more challenging. > > > > Wine can certainly be ported :-) However, you will only be able to run > the Windows applications you have the source for and can compile > for Linux on zSeries (see above).
I presume there are binaries around, however scarce, for those RISC platforms. Those folk who were upset when MS decided to drop support (or not produce support) for Alpha64 had to be running something. Some said this decicision killed Alpha. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
