On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> *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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