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- On Fri, 19 May 1995, Stephen Robert Norris wrote:
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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.
- >
- > 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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- I do not agree with you. The point is that executor is much more stable
- than wine but cannot be compared to dosemu. DOSEMU does not emulate
- DOS nor Windows it just gives you a virtual PC with BIOS support. You
- have to
- boot conventional DOS inside DOSEMU. DOSEMU even runs DOOM 2.0 and
- descent and to my surprise they are going to support to boot native Win 3.1
- inside DOSEMU **after** you have bootet native MS-DOS or DR-DOS!
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- Wine is much less usefull and stable due to the fact that the wine people try
- to emulate all the windows api calls. This is equivalent to the job
- executor does to mac binaries. They do also have similar problems like
- ardi has. (No documentation of the internas & no reversal engeneering etc.)
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- DOSEMU offers already full color support on the console (24bit here).
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- Another point is: DOSEMU is GPL and comes with source, executor is
- commercial software without souce!
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- Yours,
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- martin
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- martin.konold@student.uni-tuebingen.de
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