[rescue] What is Wabi?

James Sharp jsharp at psychoses.org
Wed Feb 27 15:31:18 CST 2002


> lmo> egads..
> lmo> if I recall correctly, WABI was an Apple Macintosh emulator.
>
> No, you're thinking of the MAE.  WABI is a Windows 3.1 emulator for
> Sun so you can run _16-bit_ Windows Apps on Solaris.
>
> If you can compile WINE for Solaris it might work a 32-bit app but
> IMHO it's still not ready for prime time completely.  Even if
> "Lindows" says it is. ;-)

I've always been told that even if you somehow magically get WINE to build
on a non-x86 platform, it won't run...because its just a unix
implementation of the Windoze API and not a true emulation layer.

Yes...no...maybe?



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