[rescue] What is Wabi?
Big Endian
bigendian at mac.com
Wed Feb 27 16:51:43 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?
Yes. But Solaris also (at least it used to) run on X86.
daniel
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