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- On Fri, 19 May 1995, Stephen Robert Norris wrote:
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- > > Hi,
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- > > 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
- >
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- 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.
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- 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... ;-)
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- Jeff Halverson
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