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Re: Two Items, One: Does Linus know?, Two: Appleshare over AFS
On Fri, 19 May 1995, Stephen Robert Norris wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just yesterday, Linus Torvalds was here at MIT giving a talk. He had
> > made mention of DOSEMU, Wine, and the iBCS2 compatibility on Linux, but
> > he did not mention Executor, which I think is close to the level of
> > DOSEMU in stability. Executor could be a big winner with Linus if it
> > can run PowerPoint since he did his slides in PowerPoint for Windows
> > and was complaining having to switch and such and how Wine isn't quite
> > up to it. Don't know if he gives a lot of talks (don't think he does)
> > but he could be good publicity.
>
> Executor is _more_ stable than DOSEMU, at least in my
> experience. The dosemu that runs under X, for example, only does text
> modes (although the current plans may change that, at least for Windows).
>
> > Jesse Hong
>
> Stephen
>
That's not exactly correct. DOOM2 can run at full speed, and I have yet
to have it crash for me under Version .60.2
But to compare these two is a bit deceptive, since
1) DOSEMU actually loads a copy of DOS into memory.
2) Executor also has to emulated the Motorola CPU, not to
mention the GUI aspects of the OS.
DOSEMU can actually almost run Windows now too.
Now after GNUStep, the Linux platform will certainly be the most
versitle! (All we need is an OS/2 emulator, perhaps ARDI can look into
this... ;-)
Jeff Halverson
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