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Received: from gold.tc.umn.edu (gold.tc.umn.edu [128.101.115.11]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA17575 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 19 May 1995 09:59:08 -0700 Received: by gold.tc.umn.edu; Fri, 19 May 95 11:58:51 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 11:58:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey A Halverson <halv0019@gold.tc.umn.edu> Reply-To: Jeffrey A Halverson <halv0019@gold.tc.umn.edu> Subject: Re: Two Items, One: Does Linus know?, Two: Appleshare over AFS To: executor@nacm.com In-Reply-To: <199505190808.SAA21930@flibble.cs.su.oz.au> Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9505191134.A24273-0100000@gold.tc.umn.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk 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