Sam Ismail wrote:
>
> On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, John Foust wrote:
> > Think I can sell the idea to Uncle Bill, or do you think he's already
> > Microserfs working on it? And perhaps even Ballmer is thinking about it:
>
> I think what ever scheme they're concocting will ultimately fail, or in
> the very least, it won't affect the rising tide of Linux. It's just too
> late. This is no browser war.
>
> > Freedows is an interesting effort to run Windows apps under Linux:
> > <http://www.freedows.org/english/high/index.html>.
>
> A much more productive end goal. Port the software over to the good OS,
> not the other way around.
>
> > As for the ten-year-rule, I think the assimilation of Linux into
> > WinNT will be good for emulators in general, making it possible
> > to download old Apple II executables and double-click on them
> > and automagically start the right emulator.
>
> I think the better solution is to have someone write such an interface in
> Linux (someone probably already has) but your feeble attempt to make this
> seem topical has failed :)
Indeed. All of the emulators that run under MS-DOS seem to run just
peachy using dosemu (though my dosemu boots DR-DOS, not MS-DOS), and
the couple of emulators that run under Windows that I've tried did
just fine under Caldera's WABI. I haven't tried Freedows, and so
far my luck with Wine has been sketchy. I haven't tried making the
emulators run by clicking on a filename, in large part due to the
confusion caused by similar extensions to filenames for executables
for different OSs and processors, and in medium part because I'm not
a graphically oriented user.
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram_at_cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any
firearms with me. I said "Well, what do you need?" -- Steven Wright
Received on Thu Sep 10 1998 - 12:46:12 BST