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- > 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.
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- 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).
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- > Jesse Hong
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- Stephen
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