Re: em86 deb (was RE: multia boot (ramdisk?) problem)
What sort of performance have you achieved? I've tried Netscape under it,
and even old versions of 3.x are terribly slow on my 600MHz Alpha.
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 12:52:49PM +0100, Loic Prylli wrote:
> Compaq/Digital provides a binary-only library (probably derived from
> FX!32) which is necessary to build em86. But anyway even in non-free,
> it would be really nice to have an em86 package available (I use em86
> for netscape, but should work for wordperfect and applix). Just nobody
> had time to package it: the tricky part being extracting from i386
> package a carefully choosen set of i386 libraries, to include in an
> associated package. I think if it is possible to support both libc5
> libraries and libc6 libraries at the same time, but I have not tried.
>
> Any volunteer?
>
> Regards,
>
> Loic
>
> .
>
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