Re: An Idea...

Ken D'Ambrosio (kend@summa4.com)
Thu, 5 Nov 1998 03:45:59 -0500 (EST)

*sigh* No, Bachs is a PC-x86 emulator that runs under U*ix. And, yes, it
runs pretty well, so long as you don't mind the inherent slowness of
software emulating hardware. And, no, it's not "commercial grade," and
neither are any of the currently-available Windows emulators that run
under Linux. I mean, I take my hat off to the Wine guys (they're trying
to accomplish a task akin to landing an airplane, at night, in a storm,
with fog, and no instruments), but Wine just is NOT ready for prime time.
And, to the best of my knowledge, there is no other currently-available PC
emulator that runs 32 bit Windows stuff. Sure, Wabi was cool... but it's
essentially dead, now. I hope that Corel is able to add whatever
resources are needed to get Wine going...

-Ken

On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Kevin Grey wrote:

> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 01:05:38 -0500 (EST)
> From: Kevin Grey <kernellist@kevlar2.ml.org>
> To: David B. Rees <dbr@oto.dyn.ml.org>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: An Idea...
>
>
>
> Yeah I know they exist, but getting xwindwos to run inside a true
> linux emulator is simply not possible without relying on some type of
> windows graphics libs and faking it. There's only so much complexity
> involved in an emlulator. I haven't actually seen the app so I wouldn't
> know, but I'm guessing there is no graphical support... I could be wrong
> though.
>
> ~Kev
>
> On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, David B. Rees wrote:
>
> > But there is a x86 emulator available called Bachs or something similar.
> > freshmeat.net showed that they had a new release recently.
> >
> > -Dave
> >
> > On 05-Nov-98 Kevin Grey wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > There are a variety of emulators for Win95/Linux. I've never seen a Linux
> > > emulator for windows, and I can't see why you'd want one. If you wanted
> > > to run a Linux app from winblows you'd have to install the linux version
> > > on the dos partition. Either way its a nice idea that would take an
> > > extremely long and painful task. The benefits are far outweighed by the
> > > technicalities.
> > >
> > > ~~Kev
> >
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