On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 11:44:54PM -0400, Matthew Soffen wrote:
> They are working on a program called WINE (Windows Emulator) that
> will allow UNIX's to run MS Applications.
Footnote on WINE and related applications: a few years back, I had
occasion to benchmark one particular application running on top of
a Windows emulator on top of Solaris 2.5 on an Intel machine vs.
the same application running on top of Windows on an identical Intel box.
The emulator version ran faster. *Much* faster. Which, given the
rather uninspired state of the emulator at the time, is not so much
a testimony to the skill of those who wrote the emulator, but to the
bag-on-the-side-of-a-bag-of-a-bag design that now constitutes Windows.
I rather expect newer releases of WINE to allow applications to
run rings around the same versions running in native mode.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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