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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).
>
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!
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.)
DOSEMU offers already full color support on the console (24bit here).
Another point is: DOSEMU is GPL and comes with source, executor is
commercial software without souce!
Yours,
martin
martin.konold@student.uni-tuebingen.de
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